Bug 93053

Summary: Status search combo lacks keyboard navigation
Product: [Unmaintained] kmail Reporter: Thomas Zander <zander>
Component: keys and menusAssignee: kdepim bugs <kdepim-bugs>
Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME    
Severity: normal CC: dominik.tritscher
Priority: NOR Keywords: triaged
Version: SVN trunk (KDE 4)   
Target Milestone: ---   
Platform: unspecified   
OS: Linux   
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Description Thomas Zander 2004-11-10 21:46:55 UTC 
Version:           1.7.50 (using KDE 3.3.89 (CVS >= 20041104), compiled sources)
Compiler:          gcc version 3.3.4 (Debian)
OS:                Linux (i686) release 2.4.21

Its impossible to navigate the status combobox (just above the topics list) using the keyboard.

To reproduce:

press alt-u and notice how the combobox becomes 'selected'.
Pressing [space] moves my current email down, I expected the combobox to open.
Pressing [down] moves my current email down, I expected the combobox to move to the next item.

Alternatively:
click in the search box and press tab; the combobox is again selected.
Pressing space does not do anything.
Pressing tab again moves the focus to an unseen widget.
Recovering with shift-tab is impossible; my focus is gone.

Worst of all:
press alt-u and notice the combobox to be selected.
Press 'd' to selected the 'Deleted' item in the combobox.
I expected the combobox to change
I see my selected item being deleted!
Comment 1 Jan de Visser 2004-11-10 21:53:33 UTC 
Alt+U, Alt+Down
Comment 2 Thomas Zander 2004-11-10 22:04:30 UTC 
Jan, thats not the way we work here.

I report a bug in KMail because it does not work the same as the rest of KDE, and because you know how to work around those limitations does not make it a 'worksforme'.

In other words; I did not ask you to give me support on KMails usage; I told the KMail developers of a problem in their application.
Comment 3 Jan de Visser 2004-11-10 22:42:03 UTC 
Fair enough, but it's sometimes hard to differentiate between 'certified' useability people and people with a pet peeve WRT a particular piece of functionality. I know that especially the way Up/Down/Left/Right work in kmail is widely misunderstood. 

I just try to help to do initial bug triage. I was wrong :)
Comment 4 Dominik Tritscher 2008-09-14 21:11:47 UTC 
Just checked that with KDE4.1+ from svn trunk (r860647) and the problem still exists.
Comment 5 Thomas Zander 2012-10-18 07:15:16 UTC 
Lets close this one now :)