Bug#706882: kmail: A does not reply to all
On Sunday, May 05, 2013 02:17:43 PM Kevin Krammer wrote:
> On Sunday, 2013-05-05, Kevin Krammer wrote:
> > On Sunday, 2013-05-05, Ross Boylan wrote:
> > > Package: kmail
> > > Version: 4:4.4.11.1+l10n-3+b1
> > > Severity: normal
> > >
> > > >From the top menu selecting message shows a list of commands including
> > > >reply
> > >
> > > all. "A" is indicated as a shortcut.
> > >
> > > However, whether focus is on the message list or the message, "A" acts
> > > like a reply. Lowercase "a" does do a reply all.
> >
> > A in the menu refers to the A key, which produces the lower case a
> > character. The uppercase A character is produced by a combination of (one
> > of) the SHIFT keys and the A key, thus indicated as SHIFT+A in the menu
> > if associated as the entry's shortcut.
> >
> > > Either the listed shortcut key or the behavior should change so they
> > > are consistent.
> >
> > It already is.
> > Menu shortcut visualizations always use capital characters, both for any
> > modifier key as well as any character key.
>
> Sorry, I was partially incorrect here. The modifier is displayed in mixed
> case characters.
>
> Anyway, another very common shortcut, Ctrl + Q for Quit Application, is
> also always displayed with a capital Q, and does not refer to the
> combination of Ctrl + Shift + q
>
> Cheers,
> Kevin
Are you saying it's a KDE standard to always use capital letters? That's
quite confusing to me, since lower and upper case letters often do different
things--in fact they do different things in KMail, as I found.
The main reason I think this matters a bit is that it is relatively easy to
hit A and think you are replying to all recipients if you don't check. That
almost happend to me.
Ross
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