567635 - individual shortcuts to focus threadpane, messagepane, folderpane

Status: UNCONFIRMED

(Thunderbird :: Mail Window Front End, enhancement)

Description

[Chaos Prevails]

User-Agent:       Opera/9.80 (Windows NT 5.1; U; Edition Campaign 21; nl) Presto/2.5.24 Version/10.53
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; nl; rv:1.9.1.9) Gecko/20100317 Thunderbird/3.0.4

currently, only shortcuts to move focus between the different panes are available (eg F6 or Ctrl+F6 (why are there two shortcuts doing the same?) but AFAIK there are no individual shortcuts to go to one of the panes. this would be very handy. the Add-On Nostalgy provides this but is partly nonfunctional in TB3 (eg ESC+I doesn't focus the Quicksearch any more, leaving the Quicksearch field via eg ESC+ESC to focus the thread pane deletes the search term in the quicksearch field).

When implementing those Shortcuts please make sure that eg, when I focuts from the Quicksearch field to some other pane, that the keyword entered into the quicksearch field is not deleted (thus the search result is still shown). 

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. focus any pane
2. press Ctrl+F6 or F6 to move focus to other panes
3. no shortcut to focus a specific pane is available (eg focus from Quicksearch to Thread Pane
Actual Results:  
I have to circle through the panes until I arrive where I want to be

Expected Results:  
I should have a direct shortcut to every pane (Folder, Thread, Message, Quicksearch)

Comment 1

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

with version 3.1, I don't see the second part of this bug report "When implementing those Shortcuts please make sure that eg, when I focuts from
the Quicksearch field to some other pane, that the keyword entered into the
quicksearch field is not deleted (thus the search result is still shown). "

Comment 2

[Chaos Prevails]

I meant: If I have limited the shown messages in the thread pane via a search in the quick search field (eg all messages from a certain sender), I should not lose this limitation when focusing somewhere else (eg the thread pane)

in TB3.1b2 it looks that I can go from quick filter to thread pane (1xTab) without losing my search, so that would be fine, thanks!

Are there shortcuts planned to toggle the different filters (those under the quick search filter field: filter by sender, receipient, subject, mail body). this would be brilliant if I could toggle on/off those different fields by shortcuts.

Comment 3

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

(In reply to comment #2)
> Are there shortcuts planned to toggle the different filters (those under the
> quick search filter field: filter by sender, receipient, subject, mail body).
> this would be brilliant if I could toggle on/off those different fields by
> shortcuts.

No such shortcuts are planned as far as I know - historically this would be implemented as an accesskey, alt+<something>.  I think that would make a fine bug.

As for this bug, directly focusing a pane, a patch might be accepted.