Partial success.

[Sioux C. Queue]

Long, long ago, from the dates on the stuff there that would be April 17, I
loaded up my wife's computer with OpenSUSE 12.3. She broke her right wrist last
year and has trouble double-clicking. I screwed around with the configuration
via kde and found that while there was a place to change it, it didn't make any
difference with Thunderbird. From what I could find on the internet the kde
configuration change is only for the click interval with kde applications.
Yesterday I stumbled across an almost fix. If you have the mouse pointer over a
message, and click the middle button/wheel, it will open the message in a tab.

Does anyone know of a better solution for this with Thunderbird?

[Norbert Möndjen]

Change the configuration of the mouse-buttons in the xserver. Then all
programms should use it. https://wiki.ubuntu.com/X/Config/Input
This can be done dynamical on per user basis. The user needs the right to
change it.

Ciao Nobbe

[Darklight]

start menu -> system settings -> input devices -> mouse settings

and

system settings -> window behaviour -> window behaviour

hope this helps have fun

[Sioux C. Queue]

>>> I screwed around with the
>>> configuration via kde and found that while there was a place to change
>>> it, it didn't make any
>>> difference with Thunderbird.

> start menu -> system settings -> input devices -> mouse settings
>
> and
>
> system settings -> window behaviour -> window behaviour
>

Yeah, this is what I changed. Does nothing for the double-click in Thunderbird.

[Mike Easter]

Sioux C. Queue wrote:
> She broke her right wrist last year and has trouble double-clicking.

> If you have the mouse pointer over a message, and click the middle
> button/wheel, it will open the message in a tab.

That opens the message in another tab, but the focus isn't on the tab
with the open message. The focus is still in the view you were in when
you middle clicked the message in the thread pane.

> Does anyone know of a better solution for this with Thunderbird?

What the better solution is depends on how she wants to read her messages.

In Tb, I prefer the View layout to be Classic view with a message pane
(which message pane toggles with F8).

Thus, in my normal view the selected message is visible in the message
pane, so there is no need to open a message in another tab.

But, if I /were/ going to open a message in another tab, I would do it
with (sticky keys) ctrl-O, which not only opens the message in another
tab, but also changes the focus to the view of the open message, which
must surely be where one wants the focus to be.

Although people who aren't accustomed to sticky keys may find it
off-putting at first, it completely solves the problem of awkward key
combinations for those who are keyboard oriented. It may not convert a
100% mouser into a 100% keyboarder, but it can easily turn a 100% mouser
into 50-50 keyboard/mouse.

There are a lot of times you just should not be moving your hand away
from the keyboard to the mouse, because the whole reason you are using
the mouse is to get to a focus where you are going to start typing, ie
keyboarding. If you keep your hands on the keyboard, they are both
right where they belong, not going back and forth to the mouse.


--
Mike Easter

[Sioux C. Queue]

On 05/18/2013 06:13 AM, Mike Easter wrote:

> In Tb, I prefer the View layout to be Classic view with a message pane (which
> message pane toggles with F8).

And this might become her favorite method of reading messages. It was already
set to Classic view. Thanks for the tip.

> Thus, in my normal view the selected message is visible in the message pane, so

... Lots of interesting stuff cut.

> back and forth to the mouse.

Way back when, perhaps before Windows 95 (I never thought Windows was useful for
anything until we loaded the shims from someplace in Australia to run TCP/IP
under 3.1 and started dialing in to work to a Emulex we'd set up for 9600bps
PPoE dial-ins from home so we could play with Archie and Mosaic), I was trying
to get her away from always heading straight for the arrow keys and into using a
mouse. It took a long time because, frankly, a lot of the stuff we used was
keyboard based, and some still is. Now she's at the point where she tries to
point and click at everything, even when she's using a text based program in
dosbox. I don't think I'd survive the retrogression, she just doesn't react
well to changes in the computing environment. If it was up to her we'd still be
using Win95. :-)

[Darklight]

I use thunderbird and every thing is single click.
version 17.0.6 not that, that should make a difference.


In system settings -> default applications.
my default email client is thunderbird.

That might make a difference