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?
Absolutely. I was completely unaware of the regression until now, and the
change was NOT intentional.
Is it the proper place for
that discussion
Yes.
or should I take it to the official KDE team? I
suppose
they only care about KDE 4 now
True.
, and they probably *prefer* the current,
more cumbersome arrangement.
More than likely IMHO. :-)
I mean, just look at the horrible things they
did to Gwenview, or Dolphin... :-\
Could you please file a bug report at
http://bugs.pearsoncomputing.net
with [REGRESSION] somewhere in the bug title?
Thanks!
Tim