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 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-qt-kde-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/201305060917.56879.r...@biostat.ucsf.edu
