From kde-core-devel Sun Dec 03 21:01:27 2006 From: Reinhold Kainhofer Date: Sun, 03 Dec 2006 21:01:27 +0000 To: kde-core-devel Subject: Re: RFC: Making focus information visible for panes Message-Id: <200612032201.28143.reinhold () kainhofer ! com> X-MARC-Message: https://marc.info/?l=kde-core-devel&m=116517969523191 Am Son Dez 3 2006 schrieb Ingo Klöcker: > Because this way the user never needs to remember or check which pane > has focus. He can simply press left/right to go to the previous/next > message and simply press up/down to scroll the message without having > to think about the focus. If the keyboard focus doesn't get in his way > then he can much better focus on what he actually wants to do. Actually, keyboard focus gets in his way, as the quick search line consumes the left/right, shift, etc. shortcuts. So this nice paradigm of "no pane in kmail has ever the focus" is not entirely true any more. Quite often, i search for a message, switch to a different window, switch back to kmail and forget that the quick search bar has the focus. I then press space a few times to get to the next unread message, which unfortunately does not work.... > The alternative is that you press up/down because you want scroll the > message but unfortunately the folder list has focus so that you > inadvertently switch to another folder. This problem already appears with the quick search bar. Cheers, Reinhol -- ------------------------------------------------------------------ Reinhold Kainhofer, Vienna University of Technology, Austria email: reinhold@kainhofer.com, http://reinhold.kainhofer.com/ * Financial and Actuarial Mathematics, TU Wien, http://www.fam.tuwien.ac.at/ * K Desktop Environment, http://www.kde.org, KOrganizer maintainer * Chorvereinigung "Jung-Wien", http://www.jung-wien.at/