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

["David E. Price" <deprice cs utah edu>]

Hi, Marco,

If you want to keep single-letter hot-keys, you might consider making 
them context-dependent. When focus is in the message list, the 
single-letter hot-keys function as they are currently implemented. If 
focus is in the mailbox tree, then single-letter hot-keys are disabled 
and single-letter (or multiple letter) navigation of the mailbox tree 
becomes functional. In fact, you have this partially implemented at the 
moment, since the single-letter hot-keys are disabled when focus is in 
the quick search text box. While I'm not thrilled with this solution, it 
is a possibility.

Thanks,

dave


Marco Zehe wrote:
> 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
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