Bug 96649

Summary: I'd like to have a hotkey to start a new email, new todo, new appointment working in every context in kontact
Product: [Applications] kontact Reporter: Andreas Bergen <andreas.bergen>
Component: generalAssignee: kdepim bugs <pim-bugs-null>
Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME    
Severity: wishlist    
Priority: NOR    
Version First Reported In: unspecified   
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OS: Linux   
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Description Andreas Bergen 2005-01-09 18:38:03 UTC 
Version:           Unbekannt (using KDE 3.3.2 Level "a" , unofficial build of SUSE )
Compiler:          gcc version 3.3.3 (SuSE Linux)
OS:                Linux (i686) release 2.6.5-7.111.5-default

It'd be great to start a new email whatever you're doing at the moment in contact. For example if you're in calendar, I'd like to press Ctrl-M and get a "new message"-window, write my email, send it and still have the Calendar-view in the background. Same would be great for "new todo" (Ctrl-T), "new appointment" (Ctrl-A), etc.
Comment 1 Mauricio Bahamonde 2005-01-10 15:23:46 UTC 
Hi, maybe you can try doing this:
Go to KDE Control Center -> Regional & Accessibility -> KHotKeys -> New Action. Then in Action Name put somehting like "KMail Compose new message" , in Action type select Keyboard Shortcut -> Command/URL (simple). Then go to the Keyboard Shortcut tab and select the combination of keys you want to launch the new mail compose window. Then on the Command/URL Setttings, enter the following:
kmail ''

Please note the final quotes ( '' ), they are nescessary, or it will not work.
I hope this is what you were looking for.

Greetings.
Comment 2 Mauricio Bahamonde 2005-01-10 16:06:20 UTC 
You can also call the command kmail --composer
Comment 3 Christophe Marin 2010-12-11 23:57:41 UTC 
This is possible in KDE4. ctrl-shift-M for a new message, ctrl-shift-T for a new todo and so on.