Hi Joshua; Thanks so much for taking the time to write. I'll forward your comments on to the developer to look in to! :)
Cheers; *Jessica* Customer Support Ninja http://mailplaneapp.com/ On Mon, Jul 15, 2013 at 1:43 PM, Joshua Bronson <[email protected]> wrote: > By default, Mailplane binds ⌘↑ and ⌘↓ to "Newer Conversation" and "Older > Conversation" (under the "Mail" menu), respectively. But this shadows OS > X's system shortcuts <https://support.apple.com/kb/HT1343> for "Move the > text insertion point to the beginning/end of the document". > > Similarly, Mailplane binds ⌘← and ⌘→ to "Next" and "Previous" (under the > "Calendar" menu), but this shadows the system shortcuts for "Move the text > insertion point to the beginning/end of the current line". > > This is a tremendous usability problem. Users of these system shortcuts > come to expect them to work in every app that offers a blinking cursor in a > text field. Having them move you to a whole other conversation or month is > surprising, disrupts what you were in the middle of trying to do, and makes > it hard to get back to where you were. > > To work around this, you can go to System Preferences > Keyboard > > Keyboard Shortcuts, select Application Shortcuts, click the + button, and > then add overrides one by one for these shortcuts in Mailplane. But this is > a huge hassle and many users aren't likely to do this. > > Gmail and Google Calendar already offer perfectly good, nay, much better, > shortcuts for "Newer Conversation" / "Older Conversation" and "Next" / > "Previous": j and k! (See > https://support.google.com/mail/answer/6594?hl=en and > https://support.google.com/calendar/answer/37034?hl=en.) > > Can Mailplane stop overriding important system keyboard shortcuts? It's > good that Mailplane offers menu items for these commands so that they're > accessible via mouse, but since there are already better keyboard shortcuts > for them built into Gmail and Gcal, Mailplane shouldn't add a different set > of shortcuts that override basic movement while editing text. If Mailplane > is going to add redundant keyboard shortcuts for these at all, it should at > least try to make sure they're not claimed by anything else. > > Thanks for reading. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "mailplaneapp" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/mailplaneapp. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "mailplaneapp" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/mailplaneapp. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
