On Fri, 2019-04-12 at 09:07 +0200, Milan Crha via evolution-list wrote:
> On Fri, 2019-04-12 at 00:00 +0200, Lukas Pirl wrote:
> > > What is the accel file entry (default) for jumping or getting in to
> > > the ’Search bar’ -AND- Can we configure a custom shortcut for
> > > jumping to the Search bar?

> For the search entry it's Altr+C here
> (English locale, the translators can choose a different letter).

Fair enough for now. Users could use the wonderful Autokey¹ to assign a custom
keyboard shortcut as a workaround.

> > once the focus is in the search input, how to focus the message list
> > again?
> 
> Tab, Tab, Tab (3-times Tab) works here. The first Tab focuses the "in"
> part of the Search (aka "Current Folder"), the second Tab focuses the
> To Do bar (when you've it hidden, it'll be two Tab-s only), the third
> Tab focuses the message list.

True; a bit cumbersome but bearable.

> > Something like "Esc" would be nice to "clear the search and focus the
> > message list".

> I've been thinking of that, it would make the UI
> slightly lighter too (showing the Show: ... Search:" part only if any
> filtering is enabled from it), but it's not the current state. The Esc
> won't work well when the Search is empty and the Show has set anything
> but the All Message item, though it's a matter of allowing the Esc to
> disable both parts, not a matter of code/design/... obstacles. Well,
> once the bar is changed, which is not the case now. Something close to
> your request seems to be filled here [1] (the request can be fine-tuned 
> there).

Apart from Esc, yes, making the search bar Ctrl+Shift+F-like would be nice to
save some screen space for unused UI elements (i.e., hide the search bar when
currently not filtering, in this case).

Best,

Lukas

¹ https://github.com/autokey/autokey

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