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List:       kmail-devel
Subject:    Bug#45803: keyboard shortcuts have no modifier
From:       Ingo =?iso-8859-1?q?Kl=F6cker?= <kloecker () kde ! org>
Date:       2002-07-28 13:32:28
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On Sunday 28 July 2002 12:57, David Hugh-Jones wrote:
> On Saturday 27 July 2002 3:00 am, Aaron J. Seigo wrote:
> > On Friday 26 July 2002 06:54, John Firebaugh wrote:
> > > On Friday 26 July 2002 1:12, Ingo Klöcker wrote:
> >
> > i think the fact that the bug reporter speaks in hypotheticals is
> > telling. i wager we'd be hearing about it pretty regularly if
> > people were accidently deleting emails due to the accels.
>
> Although I spoke in hypotheticals, it has happened to me. I have been
> editing text in a window while waiting for KMail to load. I hit "d"
> at the wrong time - just after KMail loaded and grabbed focus - and
> deleted an email. Luckily I noticed, but of course maybe at other
> times I've done stuff without noticing.

You snipped the following of Aaron's reply:
> > and waldo is also right in that this is a window manager issue more
> > than a kmail issue (one that kwin suffered from for ages, i might
> > add ... thanks to those fixed it!!)

This fix takes care of what happened to you. An application doesn't 
automatically get the focus anymore after it's loaded. Therefore the 
situation you describe above can't happen anymore which IMO means this 
discussion is pretty pointless.

> I like KMail's shortcuts, but I don't think having two-handed
> shortcuts rather than one-handed ones is a big loss - most people are
> used to them, after all.

Nobody and nothing hinders them from changing the shortcuts.

Regards,
Ingo

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(Complete bug history is available at http://bugs.kde.org/db/45/45803.html)
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