Re: [gentoo-user] kmail/kontact display anomaly

[Jim Cunning]

On Tuesday 19 January 2010 12:50:32 Neil Bothwick wrote:
> On Tue, 19 Jan 2010 22:22:39 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote:
> > Those are quick-link thingys that highlight clickable text in the mail.
> > IIRC the intent is so you can type Ctrl-D and the browser will take you
> > to the link labelled D
> >
> > I used to have it, then I did something in System Settings or kmail's
> > config and it went away. Go through both looking for options that
> > mention "Ctrl". I forget what it was, but do remember it was distinctly
> > not obvious at the time.
>
> I had the same problem turning it off on KDE3. It's a system setting,
> Konqueror does the same. ISTR it's in the Accessibility section of
> systemsettings.
>
OK, thanks for the guidance.

Alan, I was at first confused by your response, and as a test tried, for 
example, to enter Ctrl-<letter> for whatever lettered link I wanted to follow. 
Didn't work--when I pressed Ctrl the first time to display the letter boxes, 
then pressed Ctrl-H (when an "H" box was displayed), the boxes disappeared as 
soon as I depressed Ctrl, and with that still pressed, pressing "H" did 
nothing.  But....if I press and release Ctrl to display the letter boxes, and 
then press one of the letters (upper/lower case didn't matter), the nearby 
text link was activated.  In kmail I was able to select mailto:, http:, and 
https: links to open a compose window in kmail or a new web page my firefox 
browser.

Firefox does not exhibit this behavior, but konqueror does in the same way as 
kmail.  I couldn't find any other kxxx utilities with the same behavior, 
though.

At least now I know how to use this feature, but unfortunately, I can find 
nothing in the KDE menu "System Settings" under the General or Advanced tab 
that appears to enable or even modify this behavior.  Any other suggested 
places to look?
-- 
Jim