On 2013-10-24 02:37, A.L.E.C wrote:
On 10/23/2013 11:10 PM, Charles McNulty wrote:
I'd appreciate any thoughts on the issue!
Well, without your "fix" there is no problem with focus. I don't see a use-case for such functionality. What you want to do with focused, but not selected message?
Hi, thanks for the comments! First the ctrl-arrowkey behavior is just to bring it in line with native desktop behavior. For instance, if you are in a multiple dropdown select (in any browser), and you use the ctrl-arrow keys, it won't select the options that are focused. Using ctrl-arrow keys to select messages is inconsistent behavior outside of any changes to the CSS, which is why I put it in it's own pull request.
Now, in terms of use-case - I agree that it really needs to be paired with spacebar-to-select functionality so that one could select a message to be deleted, ctrl-arrow-down a few times to the next message they want to delete, tap the spacebar, and then when they've selected the messages they want to delete, press the delete key - no mouse needed.
The downside of using the spacebar is that some people expect to be able to use spacebar to page-down. However it looks like at least in Chrome and Firefox, spacebar-to-pagedown is not working anyway in RC, so perhaps it's time to implement spacebar-to-select. I'll work on a pull request for that today - should be pretty easy.
-Charles