On Sat, 2002-11-30 at 03:28, Ren� Seindal wrote: > On Fri, 2002-11-29 at 00:13, Dave Barton wrote: > > On Fri, 2002-11-29 at 08:20, Ren� Seindal wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > > > I have just installed Evo1.2 from Debian unstable, on a Debian testing > > > system. I had quite some problems with imap and subscriptions which I > > > have ironed out. > > > > Sorry, can't help you there. > > > > > My main grievance now is the lack of keyboard shortcuts. Where are they > > > all? I especially miss q which switched there preview pane on and off. > > > I used it a lot, and now its gone :-( > > > > Most are still there, but have been moved around a bit ?:/ > > The toggle preview pane is now the ~ (tilde) key. > > I just discovered a tiny ` in the menu for View | Preview Pane, but on > my Danish keyboard it was nowhere to be found. After searching a bit I > found it on AltGr-Shift-v, but it didn't work, probably because of the > shift-key. I remapped it with xmodmap to AltGr-v, and it works, but it > is very cumbersome, as I have to release the AltGr key each time. > > Why on earth have such a silly character been chosen? We don't all use > American keyboards, so shortcuts involving punctuation will cause > problems with different types of keyboards, maybe with the exception of > dot and comma. Having a shortcut on single back quote is plain silly.
I have no idea why that was chosen, other than i think q couldn't be used anymore, and ` is close to q on *some* american keyboards. On this one its over past enter - not very convenient either. > Whats wrong with the function-keys? As far as I can see, only F9 is > used. function keys seem to be used by window managers a lot, at least with qualifiers. the other problem is they're usually hard to remember. i'd be in favour of using them more, but its a ui issue. _______________________________________________ evolution maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/evolution
