278240 - MailNews: bad keybord shortcut CTRL+SHIFT+M for Mark All Read

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(SeaMonkey :: MailNews: Message Display, defect)

Description

[Nino]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8a6) Gecko/20050111
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8a6) Gecko/20050111

browsing news groups one often wants to mark all messages as read. Up to now
this could be done by pressing CTRL+SHIFT+C with left hand while navigating from
group  to group with the right hand on the mouse. 
with CTRL+M this is no longer possible! 

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
See details



Expected Results:  
best: make keyboard shortcuts user configurable 
second best: don't change shortcuts ;-)
third best: chose one-(left)-hand-shortcut preferably

Comment 1

[Jack Tanner]

Reporter, why do you claim that Ctrl+M is the shortcut that's supposed to be
used to "mark all read"? That's the shortcut to compose a new message, at least
according to http://www.mozilla.org/docs/end-user/moz_shortcuts.html#mail.
Please respond, or I will mark INVALID.

Comment 2

[Karsten Düsterloh]

> Reporter, why do you claim that Ctrl+M is the shortcut that's supposed to be
> used to "mark all read"? That's the shortcut to compose a new message, at least
> according to http://www.mozilla.org/docs/end-user/moz_shortcuts.html#mail.
> Please respond, or I will mark INVALID.

On Linux, the shortcut for "Mark all read" was Ctrl-Shift-M until bug xxx
changed that (for all platforms) to Ctrl-Shift-C, which collided with some ISO
stuff (bug yyy) and so has been reverted in the meanwhile by bug zzz.

The current shortcut for "Mark all read" on Linux is Ctrl-Shift-M again, thus
marking WFM.

Comment 3

[Nino]

(In reply to comment #1) 
> Reporter, why do you claim that Ctrl+M  
 
sorry, I meant CTRL+SHIFT+M like stated in the summary 

Comment 4

[Nino]

(In reply to comment #2)   
> On Linux, the shortcut for "Mark all read" was Ctrl-Shift-M until bug xxx   
> changed that (for all platforms) to Ctrl-Shift-C, which collided with some   
ISO   
> stuff (bug yyy) and so has been reverted in the meanwhile by bug zzz.   
>    
> The current shortcut for "Mark all read" on Linux is Ctrl-Shift-M again, thus   
> marking WFM.   
   
ok - i don't know about the ISO stuff, but what I want to say is that I do   
prefer the Ctrl-Shift-C solution (or even shift-C like in thunderbird, or any   
other left-hand-only solution) for usability reasons. And - as stated in the   
mentioned moz_shortcuts document - both windows and Mac also use Ctrl-Shift-C   
(!) so the latter would enhance interoperability imho.     

Comment 5

[Karsten Düsterloh]

Okay, I wasn't quite right about the order of changing of this shortcut, but the
effect remains the same...
Bug 66681 (of 2001-01-26!) complains about it being CTRL-Shift-C "now".
Bug 186789 is the ISO bug, changing that to CTRL-Shift-M. Bug 250005 is about
why the changeover was revoked for Mac (and Windows).