Thanks, Jessica, much appreciate it! Best, Josh
On Wed, Jul 17, 2013 at 11:54 AM, Mailplane Support < [email protected]> wrote: > 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 a topic in the > Google Groups "mailplaneapp" group. > To unsubscribe from this topic, visit > https://groups.google.com/d/topic/mailplaneapp/qtuGVqKQSFs/unsubscribe. > To unsubscribe from this group and all its topics, 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.
