Version: (using KDE 4.3.0) OS: Linux Installed from: Fedora RPMs This is basically bug #203088 that was closed as INVALID. As I have no rights to reopen, I report this new bug. The resolution of the bug #203088 is itself invalid as the bug *is* present, if you're not going to fix it properly then the resolution has to be WONTFIX. The current kmail behaviour is: the main window: Ctrl+A selects all messages within the selected folder Ctrl+Shift+A selects all the text within the selected message opening separate mail window (doubleclicking a message in the list): Ctrl+A does nothing Ctrl+Shift+A selects all the text within the message the message editor: Ctrl+A selects all the text within the current field Ctrl+Shift+A does nothing This is inconsistent, using different shortcuts for the same actions within one application is a bug. I'd suggest to use this scheme instead: the main window: Ctrl+A selects all the text within the selected message Ctrl+Shift+A selects all messages within the selected folder opening separate mail window (doubleclicking a message in the list): Ctrl+A selects all the text within the message Ctrl+Shift+A does nothing (optionally: select just the text of the message body) the message editor: Ctrl+A selects all the text within the current field Ctrl+Shift+A does nothing The reasons for this choice of shortcuts assigments are: * it prevents regression from the previous version * it is consistent with other applications (Ctrl+A to select all the text lives with us a long time, and is still actively used, try it in Kwrite, Konqueror ...) * the more complex shortcut is used just once while the simpler one is used in all the cases (it'd be tempting to talk about frequency of the usage, but I have no statistic data, except my own example that I select all the text quite often while I have used "select all messages" just once, in error, because I wasn't aware of the new Ctrl+A meaning)
I completely agree with kavol.
/me too agrees, plus ctrl+shift+a could be used for messages (single): ctrl+a -- selects focused message part, if none, body of the message (w/o headers) ctrl+shift+a -- selects entire message (with headers), no matter which part is focused So it would be slight backward compatibility break, but since ctrl+a was annoying for single message before, this break would be useful actually. @Finex, thanks for CC, but about votes -- I am out of any for such popular programs as KMail for loooong time ago :-)
SVN commit 1020986 by jtamate: BUG: 204625 Interchange Ctrl+Shift+A and Ctrl+A shortcuts. M +1 -1 kmmainwidget.cpp M +1 -1 kmreaderwin.cpp WebSVN link: http://websvn.kde.org/?view=rev&revision=1020986