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List:       kmail-devel
Subject:    Re: Select Messages via Keyboard?
From:       Andreas Gungl <a.gungl () gmx ! de>
Date:       2001-06-01 20:36:02
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On Friday 01 June 2001 11:27, Ralf Nolden wrote:
> Steve Simms wrote:
> > Is there currently a way to select multiple messages via the keyboard,
> > other than "select all messages"?
> >
> > The intuitive thing to do (at least, the thing I've tried to do
> > unsuccessfully about a hundred times since using KMail) would be to
> > have shift-left-arrow or shift-right-arrow select the current and
> > previous or next message, respectively.  Would this be hard to
> > implement?
> >
> > Another idea that might be neat would be a "select thread" keybinding.
> > That's something I do fairly regularly as well.
>
> That's what you can do with having a threads column :) just click on the
> icon in front of the thread - that's how it works in netscape, so there
> *is* some sense behind that column, although others beleive it's the
> crappiest part of nsmail's listview :) *hint* :)
>
> Ralf

I'm just wondering what use cases are created to demonstrate the use of 
something. =:-(

What's a thread? A collection of messages in parent-child relation. 
Basically you can recognize a thread via the [+] in front of the top level 
parent message.
Clicking on the [+] opens the thread, click on [-] closes it.

Nobody would come out with the idea to put this [+] or [-] plus the lines 
into a separate column. And we actually know, that this column is only 
invented to avoid some clicks. ;-)

We don't really need a thread icon, and we never need it to be able to 
select threads. A keybinding is the first approach. And for those who count 
the mouse clicks I would suggest to think about the possibility to 
right-click on [+] or [-] to select/deselect a thread. (As soon as you have 
to scroll, then your number of clicks theorie is broken anyway.)

Andreas
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