On 2013-10-31 10:05, Michael Heydekamp wrote:
Hmm... I think it's a pretty good idea to have the facility to select messages with the space bar, but I'd rather suggest to do it the same way as elder guys like me ;) got used to for ages with Norton/Total Commander: Just pressing the space bar without Ctrl or anything else.
If you can find someone to write a Norton Commander skin, I'll write the javascript to match the keyboard behavior! Of course then we'll have to model Pine/Alpine keyboard behavior just to be fair. :) Of course there might be slightly more Outlook/Thunderbird users than Commander users. :)
Personally I think if we just take the existing "selected" style and, make a (much) lighter version of it for when it's focused, and a (slightly) darker version for when it's both selected and focused, we'd be good.
Here I suggest to just change the color of the font for any selected message (again, as in Norton/Total Commander) rather than working with three different row colors. This also would solve the problem which row has the focus.
That might be good too. I'll admit I'm not a design person, so I'm not the most qualified person to decide on what the best style would be to show focused records. I like the idea of a dotted outline, but it just doesn't work in IE at all.
-Charles
Cheers,