Re: [orca-list] Thunderbird: Cursor keys only means of navigating the mailbox list

[Marco Zehe <marco zehe googlemail com>]

Hi David,

David E. Price wrote:
> When I'm in the list of mailboxes, the only means for navigating the
> list is using the arrow keys.  There is no speedy way to move down
> through the list that I can find.  For instance, if I have a mailbox
> called "Work" and it is the only mailbox starting with the letter `w', I
> cannot hit the `w' key and have focus move to the "Work" mailbox.

Tbhunderbird currently does not support first letter navigation within
its lists. This has partly to do with the fact that Thunderbird offers
certain single-letter keys such as "n" to move to the next unread
message in the same or next folder, or to quickly toggle marks on
messages such as "read" or "unread".

The Thunderbird team is aware of this problem, and we're thinking about
a better solution that would allow maybe to toggle these, but nothing
substantial has come of this so far.

Marco