kmail on kde 4.2.2

Hi, I just switched to KDE 4 recently. There is a small behavior that is
different from kmail shipped with KDE 3 and that is quite annoying.

I'm always using an external text editor to write my mails. I do this because
I often have to review code, and it's much easier to do from vim. I'm also
used to press Ctrl+Enter to then ship the message so I'm staying far away from
my mouse.

The problem is, when an external text editor is set, hitting the key 'Ctrl'
now spaws the editor. In KDE 3, this was not the case. I could hit 'R' to
first reply, then hit a key to enter the external editor, save & quit and then
Ctrl+Enter was sending the mail. As a feature/bug request, I'd love to see the
same behavior in KDE 4. In other words, I don't think that any keyboard
modifier pushed alone should be able to spawn the external text editor.

Let me know what you think.

Thank you,

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On Thursday 16 April 2009, Pascal Patry wrote:

> Hi, I just switched to KDE 4 recently. There is a small behavior that
> is different from kmail shipped with KDE 3 and that is quite
> annoying.
>
> I'm always using an external text editor to write my mails. I do this
> because I often have to review code, and it's much easier to do from
> vim. I'm also used to press Ctrl+Enter to then ship the message so
> I'm staying far away from my mouse.
>
> The problem is, when an external text editor is set, hitting the key
> 'Ctrl' now spaws the editor. In KDE 3, this was not the case. I could
> hit 'R' to first reply, then hit a key to enter the external editor,
> save & quit and then Ctrl+Enter was sending the mail. As a
> feature/bug request, I'd love to see the same behavior in KDE 4. In
> other words, I don't think that any keyboard modifier pushed alone
> should be able to spawn the external text editor.
>
> Let me know what you think.

I think what you say makes sense. You should:
- Submit a bug report for this, if possible including a proposal for a
fix.
- Use the kde-pim mailing list instead of the kmail-devel mailing list
since since quite some time the former is used for discussing the
development of KMail. (kmail-devel, nowadays, only serves as recipient
for old bug reports.)


Regards,
Ingo


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On Thursday 16 April 2009 16:33:27 Ingo Klöcker wrote:

> On Thursday 16 April 2009, Pascal Patry wrote:
> > Hi, I just switched to KDE 4 recently. There is a small behavior that
> > is different from kmail shipped with KDE 3 and that is quite
> > annoying.
> >
> > I'm always using an external text editor to write my mails. I do this
> > because I often have to review code, and it's much easier to do from
> > vim. I'm also used to press Ctrl+Enter to then ship the message so
> > I'm staying far away from my mouse.
> >
> > The problem is, when an external text editor is set, hitting the key
> > 'Ctrl' now spaws the editor. In KDE 3, this was not the case. I could
> > hit 'R' to first reply, then hit a key to enter the external editor,
> > save & quit and then Ctrl+Enter was sending the mail. As a
> > feature/bug request, I'd love to see the same behavior in KDE 4. In
> > other words, I don't think that any keyboard modifier pushed alone
> > should be able to spawn the external text editor.
> >
> > Let me know what you think.
>
> I think what you say makes sense. You should:
> - Submit a bug report for this, if possible including a proposal for a
> fix.
> - Use the kde-pim mailing list instead of the kmail-devel mailing list
> since since quite some time the former is used for discussing the
> development of KMail. (kmail-devel, nowadays, only serves as recipient
> for old bug reports.)
>
>
> Regards,
> Ingo

ack

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