Looking to replace Evolution

Gilboa Davara gilboad at gmail.com
Fri Nov 10 14:21:49 UTC 2006


On Fri, 2006-11-10 at 13:15 +0000, Anne Wilson wrote:
> On Friday 10 November 2006 13:05, Gilboa Davara wrote:
> > On Fri, 2006-11-10 at 09:43 +0000, Anne Wilson wrote:
> > > On Thursday 09 November 2006 22:29, Gilboa Davara wrote:
> > > >
> > > > Sadly enough, AFAIR mozilla.* have no sync capabilities under Linux
> > > > (Palm, WinCE, Cellphone, etc).
> > > > If only... I'd drop Evolution faster then a crazed dog.
> > > > (Sadly enough, while I use KDE, the kmail weird keyboard navigation
> > > > annoys the hell out of me...)
> > >
> > > Are you sure you can't use the keyboard shortcuts to make it do what you
> > > want?
> > >
> > > Anne
> > > --
> >
> > I tried... but couldn't quite reach it.
> > Stupid every-day things like using "Shift - Up/Down" "Ctrl + Space +
> > Up/Down" to mark messages for move/delete (which work just fine in
> > konqueror) are not configured by default and require a lot of
> > customization to semi-work.
> > I saw a lot of threads about the kmail weird keyboard navigation
> > (compared to other KDE applications), hopefully KDE4 will fix this weird
> > usability issue
> >
> I was thinking more of the keyboard shortcuts customisation in kcontrol.  I 
> don't know whether it would fix the problem, but you could take a look at it.
> 
> Anne

I tried them.
Problem being, kmail has too many specific option that cover the normal
"up/down, select message, select multiple-messages, etc" options.
As much as I tried, I couldn't make it behave life
Evolution/Thunderbird/Seamonkey or even, God forbids, Outlook :(

- Gilboa




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