On Thu, Oct 24, 2013 at 6:35 PM, Charles McNulty charles@charlesmcnulty.com wrote:
I scoured the code for keyboard handling and here's what I found:
Message & Contact List (unless otherwise noted):
Up and down arrow keys: Select next/previous item When selecting a message in a thread: Plus/minus keys: Open/close the thread Spacebar: Toggles thread open and closed +/= key: Open thread (firefox - not chrome) Page-up/page-down: Load previous/next page Home/end: Select first/last item Enter key: Show message (not applicable to contacts) Escape key: Cancel mouse drag (mid-drag) Delete key: Delete selected items Backspace key: Delete selected messages only (does not work forcontacts)
It doesn't look like this is documented anywhere. Anyone care to add this to the wiki? I'd be happy to create/manage a wiki page for key-bindings, or it could just be added to the User_Guide page.
I recently started a new documentation approach for Roundcube. See http://trac.roundcube.net/wiki/Online_Help for details. That'll definitely the place to describe keyboard navigation.
Personally, I think they could be tweaked though, and maybe that should happen before documenting the behavior.
- The (+/=) key support is browser dependent, and could probably just be
dropped.
- The backspace key works for messages but not contacts and seems redundant
with the delete key - additionally some people use the backspace key for "back" in a browser. I'm not suggesting we support using the backspace key for browser-back, but I am suggesting that we might not want to delete messages if a user presses it intending to go back.
Please keep in mind that Mac keyboards nowadays don't have a delete key anymore and Mac users are used to press the backspace to delete things. Thus at least for Macs, the backspace key should trigger deletion.
- I think that we should add left/right cursor (arrow) key support to
expand/collapse threads.
Sounds reasonable.
Cheers, Thomas