So, I upgraded my old Ubuntu box to Maverick recently, with Trinity, of course. God
bless.
But not without a few incidents. Some of the old settings were lost, especially in Kmail.
And I noticed an annoying change in the shortcuts. I have many mailboxes: private, work,
another work, Gmail etc. When I created them, I was required to name each one of them. So
I put numbers in the names:
1 - Work
2 - Private
3 - Another work
4 - Gmail
etc.
Opening the File menu in Kmail, the item "Check Mail In >" had the letter C
underlined, so I developed the habit of pressing Alt+f, c to open the "Check Mail In
>" submenu with all my mail accounts. Then I would press the number of the account
I wanted to check: Alt+f, c, 1 for "1 - Work". Fine. Could be better, but
anyway...
That is a lot worse now. The new Kmail still has "Check Mail In >" but now it
underlines the letter I. Which is bad, because "Import Messages..." also has the
letter I underlined. So, instead of pressing Alt+f, c, now I am supposed to press Alt+f,
i, and because the letter i matches two items in that menu, that mail account submenu does
not open automatically anymore. Pressing i over and over swaps the selection from
"Import Messages..." to "Check Mail In >" then back to "Import
Messages..." ad infinitum. None will be selected automatically, I have to press
Enter. So my procedure now is: Alt+f, i, i, Enter. Annoying.
Even worse, now pressing the account number (first character of the account name)
doesn't work anymore. In other words, pressing Alt+f, i, i, Enter, 1 does not check
the "1 - Work" account. I have to go another Enter... Summing up: from
<Alt+f, c, 1> I had to go to <Alt+f, i, i, Enter, Enter> and that's just
for the first item of the submenu. For the 5th item, it's <Alt+f, i, i, Enter,
down, down, down, down, Enter>. Grrrrr...
Can we go back to the old arrangement? Please? Is it the proper place for that discussion
or should I take it to the official KDE team? I suppose they only care about KDE 4 now,
and they probably *prefer* the current, more cumbersome arrangement. I mean, just look at
the horrible things they did to Gwenview, or Dolphin... :-\
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Luciano ES
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