| Summary: | Add support for caret navigation/selection | ||
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| Product: | Claws Mail (GTK 2) | Reporter: | Joanmarie Diggs <joanmarie.diggs> |
| Component: | UI/Message View | Assignee: | users |
| Status: | RESOLVED WONTFIX | ||
| Severity: | enhancement | ||
| Priority: | P3 | ||
| Version: | 3.0.0 | ||
| Hardware: | PC | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
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Description
Joanmarie Diggs
2007-07-18 20:30:36 UTC
What are the compelling reasons to have such a feature? 1. For individuals who prefer to use the keyboard over the mouse (such as myself): Because it is more efficient to select a portion of the message to be copied and pasted via the keyboard than it is to remove my hands from the keyboard, grab the mouse, and drag it over the text I want to copy. :-) 2. Individuals who are blind access documents (including email messages they received) by arrowing through the text. As they do so, their screen reading software will speak and/or display in braille each unit of text that receives focus. As it stands right now, reading messages with Claws Mail is not accessible. :-( We (Orca screen reader development team) have received several requests to provide support for Claws Mail as an alternative to Evolution and Thunderbird. And we'd really like to be able to do this, but we need some help from your team on the accessibility front. The idea of using the keyboard to mark those portions of a message that should be quoted in a reply sounds good to me! It's easy to do this anyway, tab into the message and then use shift -> or <- It seems I am unable to do this in my installation of 2.10.0 *shrug* I'm unable to do it as well. (Although I guess the bug kinda gives that away) :-) Doesn't seem to work, no, I don't remember we coded that. It's an interesting feature, although it has to be done in a way that doesn't add to the current focus difficulties... I'm sure this used to work for me, but maybe it disappeared and I hadn't noticed. I frequently use the mouse these days but I'm sure that keyboard selection worked at some time in the past. Sorry for the incorrect information. -- Bugzilla database cleanup -- Hi, It looks like nobody has been interested in implementing this feature since the end of 2007; in order to clean up the bugzilla, I'm marking this WONTFIX. Features in Claws Mail get implemented on a developer-interest basis: if one of the core developers codes a feature, or if an external contributor provides a good patch, the feature gets added. If the feature interests nobody with coding abilities, although it seems nicer to leave old requests lingering in Bugzilla and let the submitter hope the feature will be added someday, it's more honest (and cleaner) to close them as WONTFIX. |