use Space and Backspace like every other mail client Jeff
On Fri, 2005-03-04 at 18:31 -0700, Evolution List wrote: > Bryan recently suggested using VFolders to keep track of unread emails. > That was a GREAT suggestion Bryan! One that is working beautifully and > keeping me from having to manually find unread messages in each of the > folders to which my filters send them as a result of seemingly > unreliable key presses and scroll bar shenanigens :). > > Anyway I have a new interface quirk that I would surely appreciate > similar input on how to get around from anyone that might have a viable > solution. > > Specifically....I am focused, at least I think I am, on the pane > containing message lines like From, To, etc.. In my Evolution the pane > is in the upper right. The blue highlight bar is present over a message > (at least in Gnome). Okay that's the background. > > Now I would like to be able to scroll down through the email, whose > contents appear in the pane just below the aforementioned one, such that > I could read through the email WITHOUT loosing my ability to traverse > from one message to the next in the upper right pane previously > mentioned. > > Currently the only way I can do that is to go over to my mouse, use the > middle scroll wheel, scroll through my message and then come back to the > keyboard to down arrow to the next message. Oh I think I can use the > Tab key as well but since their is no clear indication of where I am > focused by using the Tab key it's also frustrating to use that approach > because sometimes tabbing ends up in places I did not intend to go. > > This is a major PITA for those of us who like to use the keyboard as > much as possible without having to rely on the mouse. If you are on the > computer as much as I am and end up using the mouse as much as I end up > having to do, your mouse hand muscles can start to become quite painful > after 8 or more hours of mousing around. > > Anyway I have tried all kinds of key combinations and nothing seems to > work in terms of letting me scroll through a messages's contents while > still able to use the down and up arrow keys to go to the next and > previous messages. I mean why can't Evolution allow Ctrl-<downarrow> or > something similar to allow that? Why must I have to go over and use the > mouse again? > > Is there no workaround for this additional very annoying quirk? Better > yet are there plans in the works to allow us to define our own keyboard > shortcuts? > > Oh how I wish that someone on the interface team would be a keyboard > oriented person! I say that because it seems unlikely that there is > such a person on the interface team or else, if there is, that they > don't have much say so. I hate to gripe about these interface quirks > but they are really annoying and quite frankly, quite ridiculous. > > I'm not trying to be offensive. Just quite frustrated with Evolution's > interface and how it forces me to work in a less efficient manner than I > am used to. > > Does anyone have any suggestions for a work around over this latest > quirk? I am all ears... > > Carlos > > > _______________________________________________ > evolution maillist - [email protected] > http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/evolution > _______________________________________________ evolution maillist - [email protected] http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/evolution
