Bug#706882: kmail: A does not reply to all

[Ross Boylan <ross@biostat.ucsf.edu>]

On Monday, May 06, 2013 10:00:12 AM Kevin Krammer wrote:
> On Monday, 2013-05-06, Ross Boylan wrote:
> > 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.
> 
> No, what I am saying is that, at least the default style's visual hint for
> keyboard shortcut uses the symbol on the key to mean the key 
Since the symbol on the physical key is uppercase, that comes down to the same 
thing, i.e. display an uppercase letter when a lower case letter is meant.

I may be particularly sensitive to this since I'm also using mutt, for which 
there are many cases in which lower and upper case differ, and both do 
something useful.  I also use evolution, which of course is GNOME not KDE, and 
I don't remember any such issues there.  I use T-bird on windows.  I figured I 
try out KMail to how it is now.
> and uses
> modifiers to mean that the key needs to be pressed while the depict
> combination of modifier keys are held.
> 
> I am not aware of any keyboard that uses lowercase letters on its keycaps,
> but if course if you have such a keyboard that the visualization hint
That's not the issue.  The issue is that an uppercase shortcut suggests, at 
least to me, using the upper case letter.
> would not match what you are seeing, leading you to the assumption that
> you must hold the shift modifier to achieve the depict keystroke.
> 
> Maybe you could file a feature request against Qt to allow toggle for
> people such as yours with a keyboard with lower case characters on their
> keycaps.
So you think this is ultimately a Qt, rather than KDE, issue?
> 
> > 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.
> 
> Interesting. Whenever I hit the A key it does indeed invoke the
I take it from the previous remarks that when you say "hit the A key" you mean 
using keystrokes that create a lowercase a.  That works for me too.  What 
doesn't work is hitting keys (i.e., shift and A) the mean capital A.  That 
does reply, rather than reply-all.

> reply-to-all functionality. But then of course all my keyboards have upper
> case characters depict in the keycaps so there was a direct visual
> similarity between the shortcut hint and the actual key.
> 
> Cheers,
> Kevin