> So, I upgraded my old Ubuntu box to Maverick recently, with Trinity, of > course. God bless. > > But not without a few incidents. Some of the old settings were lost, > especially in Kmail. And I noticed an annoying change in the shortcuts. I > have many mailboxes: private, work, another work, Gmail etc. When I > created them, I was required to name each one of them. So I put numbers in > the names: > > 1 - Work > 2 - Private > 3 - Another work > 4 - Gmail > etc. > > Opening the File menu in Kmail, the item "Check Mail In >" had the letter > C underlined, so I developed the habit of pressing Alt+f, c to open the > "Check Mail In >" submenu with all my mail accounts. Then I would press > the number of the account I wanted to check: Alt+f, c, 1 for "1 - Work". > Fine. Could be better, but anyway... > > That is a lot worse now. The new Kmail still has "Check Mail In >" but now > it underlines the letter I. Which is bad, because "Import Messages..." > also has the letter I underlined. So, instead of pressing Alt+f, c, now I > am supposed to press Alt+f, i, and because the letter i matches two items > in that menu, that mail account submenu does not open automatically > anymore. Pressing i over and over swaps the selection from "Import > Messages..." to "Check Mail In >" then back to "Import Messages..." ad > infinitum. None will be selected automatically, I have to press Enter. So > my procedure now is: Alt+f, i, i, Enter. Annoying. > > Even worse, now pressing the account number (first character of the > account name) doesn't work anymore. In other words, pressing Alt+f, i, i, > Enter, 1 does not check the "1 - Work" account. I have to go another > Enter... Summing up: from <Alt+f, c, 1> I had to go to <Alt+f, i, i, > Enter, Enter> and that's just for the first item of the submenu. For the > 5th item, it's <Alt+f, i, i, Enter, down, down, down, down, Enter>. > Grrrrr... > > Can we go back to the old arrangement? Please? Absolutely. I was completely unaware of the regression until now, and the change was NOT intentional. > Is it the proper place for > that discussion Yes. > or should I take it to the official KDE team? I suppose > they only care about KDE 4 now True. > , and they probably *prefer* the current, > more cumbersome arrangement. More than likely IMHO. :-) > I mean, just look at the horrible things they > did to Gwenview, or Dolphin... :-\ > Could you please file a bug report at http://bugs.pearsoncomputing.net with [REGRESSION] somewhere in the bug title? Thanks! Tim