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TABBING in the UI?!? - ARG!
Authored by: x509v3 on May 17, '05 01:55:39AM

I think Apple made nice UI changs to Mail.app, but they've really BRUISED one particular user experience:
when composing a new mail, I used to enter a "to" address, press the TAB key to enter a "subject" line, then press the TAB key to go to the body and start entering my message.

With Mail2, now you have to press TAB to cycle through a bunch of UI elements like account, prioroty, signature, digital signature. UGH! Why would I want to use they kayboard to make those selections!?? Those are meant to be clicked on by a mouse.

sigh...this is the type of UE I expect on Windows, not Mac OS X.

This is my one pet peeve with Mail2



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TABBING in the UI?!? - ARG!
Authored by: matamatangi on May 19, '05 11:21:39AM

Sounds like you have full keyboard access turned on in Keyboard shortcuts of the Keyboard & Mouse Pref Pane. If you turn that off, tabbing works as expected. You can also hit control-F7 to turn it on and off.



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