Hi Arif,
In the meantime you could ugh..., use the buttons in the UI :) – those
should be reliable. If *Command-S* is save draft, you could safely skip
saving drafts, I have never ran into a case where I lost an email because
gmail is always saving drafts automatically for me in the background. A
few times where I had no bayberry and tripped on the power cord and I did
lose an email, but not much, just the last draft save point.
Send should be *Command-Shift-D*. Because of the issues you are running
into, where if gmail makes a change, there is good chance that it will take
the devs working on MP a while to solve it.
And it may break again.
I neer use the keyboard commands native to the app, but instead learned
all the ones shown when pressing *command-?* or the slightly more readable
list, but less convenient located here:
http://mail.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?hl=en&ctx=mail&answer=6594
If your case, press "c" to compose, tab to get to the recipient, type a few
letters of their name, tab to enter to the subject, and tab to enter to the
body.
Now type your email, when done, press tab-return and it is sent. You will
need the *keyboard shortcuts lab* enabled, which you can customize, though
I find they are well thought out already.
When in doubt, a quick *command-?* will bring up a nice black
*HUD<http://documentation.apple.com/en/aperture/usermanual/index.html#chapter=2%26section=16%26tasks=true>
* window to help you through it.
To get to the inbox, "go inbox" or "*gi*". Go to Starred, Go to Sent, Go
to Trash, Go to Drafts, I can move throughout gmail without using the mouse
at all – all the way to labeling, spam reporting, deleting, everything.
The only minor thing I can't figure out is out how to "select the
remaining ~600 messages in this folder. I have to grab the mouse for that.
I think I like this method as it is yet another reason to use the DAS
Keyboard and annoy others with the *clackity clack*.
I love it – though it took some getting used to with an app that uses many
single key modifiers and few two key modifiers, and further some rather
bizarre combinations. You will get used to it in a few hours, and then no
longer need to worry about the menu's at all, or the state that MailPlane
is in – as as long as gmail works in Safari, you are g2g.
Hope this is a helpful workaround in thee meantime. I preference to
control when drafts saving happen would be a nice MP add on unless I have
minded it in Google Labs or Gmail preferences.
You could also remap the current MP keys to something else as a test to see
if that will temporarily solve your issues. This is controlled from
your *System
Preferences* in the *Keyboard Shortcuts* section of the *Keyboard
Preference Pane*.
** I just thought of a cool little add on if possible, a plug-in
architecture or method to inject a string into my signature via variables.
For example: "Now listening to %Current_Track% by %Artist% in iTunes"
What could be nice about this is hopefully it would allow for the addition
of data such as: "Now using %gm_megabytes%MB of Gmails total storage space
of %gm_total_storage% for a total of %gm_total_emails% emails. This email
is %gm_message_wc% words long and has %gm_character_count% characters in
it." Just shell piping to MP would make this possible.*
*
*
Thanks for a great app, and Arif, I hope this workaround is acceptable for
you to get some work done today in a safe way. Good luck!
--
Scott
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