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On Sunday 03 December 2006 22:01, Reinhold Kainhofer wrote:
> Am Son Dez 3 2006 schrieb Ingo Kl=F6cker:
> > 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.

Yes, I know. I do also run into this from time to time. If you have a=20
suggestion how to fix this, the please speak up. The quick search=20
should probably automatically lose focus if the main window loses focus=20
(?) or if the user didn't enter anything for 10 seconds (?).

Regards,
Ingo

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