Add option to disable single key shortcuts
Categories
(Thunderbird :: Preferences, enhancement)
Tracking
(Not tracked)
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(Reporter: bugzilla.mozilla.reg, Unassigned)
Details
Steps to reproduce:
I have gotten so used to the "Search when you type" feature in Firefox that I sometimes accidentally start typing in Thunderbird, when looking at an email, to search in it.
Since single key presses without Ctrl or Alt are shortcuts for actions in Thunderbird, this or other emails are modified, which I don't want.
Actual results:
Messages were moved, archived, marked as junk, etc.
Expected results:
Ideally, nothing should have happened.
If I were to make a guesstimate, the vast majority of Thunderbird users probably don't use the single key feature. Developers and super users of course do, but they are probably in the minority, in that way.
For the ordinary user, these single key shortcuts can be quite annoying, since you don't really know if important emails were deleted, marked as junk and moved or something else. And backtracking afterwards is near to impossible, to clean up after the damage is done.
My suggestion is to set single key shortcuts to disabled by default, yet allowing super users to enable single key shortcuts.
Perhaps add this option under "Settings"?
[x] Disable single key shortcuts
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Comment 1•3 years ago
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It is possible to unset shortcuts with the tbkeys-lite add-on, but that forces the user to grant full access to the computer, which has security implications. Also, configuring tbkeys-lite isn't exactly a simple thing to do, whereas removing a check mark is.
Alternatively, this option could also be named like this, disabled by default under Settings?
[ ] Enable single key shortcuts
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Updated•3 years ago
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