412911 - Hotkey Suggestions (similar to Thunderbird's shortcut keys)

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 431076

(Calendar :: General, enhancement)

Description

[Brent Millare]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.8.1.11) Gecko/20071224 Firefox/2.0.0.11
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.8.1.8pre) Gecko/20080117 Sunbird/0.7

Sunbird still lacks a solid repertoire of usable hotkeys. Providing such features will better support mobile users who rely on the keyboard more than the mouse. In my opinion, mobile users would be the most likely user of sunbird.

My suggestion is to adapt a scheme similar to thunderbird and firefox because they are already familiar, and tend to be a good choice.

The following is an example of what I believe would be good choices but not necessarily optimal:

Hotkey                     Function
ctrl + k                   search (places curson in event contain field)
n                          next event according to date
p                          previous event according to date
f                          next event according to sort order
b                          previous event according to sort order
1 to 9                     add category

The following sections also lack hotkeys and would benefit from such:
Tasks
-setting task priorities
-setting task categories
-moving to next and previous tasks

Views
-moving to next or previous page (day, week, month)

Panes
-move to next pane (F6 ?)



Reproducible: Always

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Comment 1

[Philipp Kewisch [:Fallen][☁️📆]]

A group of three students from Brazil in a course about open source is going to be working on this bug as a student-project. Looking forward to your patch(es), thanks Eduardo!

Comment 2

[chrizilla]

@Brent: thanks for your suggestion.

Unfortunately this bug was overlooked when duplicate bug 431076 was filed.
So although filed earlier, this bug is closed in favour of bug 431076 which has more progress (attached patch) and has been used as deduplication target for 7 other bugs already.

In addition, the hotkey suggestions in bug 431076 (cursor keys, PGup, PGdwn, etc.) have the advantage of being universally recognized whereas the letter hotkeys suggested here are language-dependent and equivocal (n, p, f, etc. could mean something else ...).