Bug 165422

Summary: Folders not changing on keyboard shortcut
Product: [Unmaintained] kmail Reporter: Dotan Cohen <kde-2011.08>
Component: generalAssignee: kdepim bugs <kdepim-bugs>
Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME    
Severity: normal    
Priority: NOR    
Version: unspecified   
Target Milestone: ---   
Platform: Ubuntu   
OS: Linux   
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Description Dotan Cohen 2008-06-30 14:58:47 UTC 
Version:            (using KDE 4.0.83)
Installed from:    Ubuntu Packages

In Kmail Ctrl-left and Ctrl-right are configured (as default, and I have not changed anything) to focus the previous/next folders. This does not work. The titlebar changes to reflect the change that _should_ be occurring in the main window, however, the folder having focus is not changed.

To illustrate, I have four folders:
AA
BB
CC
DD

I have folder BB focused and the Kmail titlebar correctly shows BB as the current folder. I press Ctrl-right. The titlebar changes to show the folder "CC" however the Kmail window does not change. I can still press left and right to browse the messages in BB, even though I gave the command to move to CC and the titlebar indicates folder CC.
Comment 1 Thomas McGuire 2008-06-30 19:09:52 UTC 
This is a misunderstanding, ctrl+left/right are not meant to select a folder, they are meant to change the current folder, but you can't see that because of a bug in the oxygen style (see bug 165216).
To select the folder after you used ctrl+left/right, use ctrl+space. This behaviour is useful if you have IMAP folders, and you do not want to update them when walking over the folder list with the shortcuts.
Comment 2 Dotan Cohen 2008-06-30 20:41:12 UTC 
I was using the Ozone style, not Oxygen, at the time. I will retest, and try Ctrl-space before commenting further.
Comment 3 Thomas McGuire 2008-06-30 21:41:55 UTC 
>I was using the Ozone style, not Oxygen
That is almost the same style, in fact it is a fork with some minor differences.
Comment 4 Dotan Cohen 2008-07-01 11:57:48 UTC 
> To select the folder after you used ctrl+left/right, use
> ctrl+space. This behaviour is useful if you have IMAP folders,
> and you do not want to update them when walking over the folder
> list with the shortcuts.

Can there be an option to override this? It is not terribly annoying, but it is not intuitive. I understand the need for IMAP users, but for Local users it is confusing.

If not an option to override, then maybe an additional alternative to "change current folder to next/previous folder", which would be "select next/previous folder", to which one could assign a keyboard shortcut? Thanks.

I think that this bug was closed RESOLVED prematurely as the issue is still confusing and not intuitive. I won't reopen it against your wishes, Thomas, but please consider reopening the bug until one could use a single keyboard shortcut to select the next/previous folder. Thanks.
Comment 5 Dotan Cohen 2008-08-16 22:04:54 UTC 
My request from the previous comment is now a wish-bug:
http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=169265