Hi Brian,
I agree :o) The only place where this gets weird is if you're in the
IN collection or say the Trash collection. Could we make exceptions
for that? We could even stay in the IN/Trash collections, but just
not add the item to those collections. I'm not sure if that's
possible. That would require displaying an item in the Detail View
that doesn't exist in the currently selected collection. Otherwise,
we can just switch to the OUT collection.
Mimi
PS I think Aparna logged a bug about this, or something very like
this: https://bugzilla.osafoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=8171
On Mar 5, 2007, at 6:15 PM, Brian Kirsch wrote:
Hello,
I would like to suggest that we do not change the sidebar
collection when Replying and Forwarding mail.
Currently, when a user hits reply or forward the out collection is
selected and the focus put on the mail message.
I think this is very counter intuitive to current mail apps. It is
very easy for a user not realize that the collection
they were working in has changed.
So here is a scenario I hit a couple of times today while testing
the reply / forward logic.
I am working in the dashboard. I select a mail to reply to. I hit
reply. I respond to the message and send it.
I then hit sync and see that new mail is being downloaded. However,
I don't see the mail in Chandler.
My first thought and I believe the first users thought will be that
something is not working correctly (bug).
Why?
Because I was working in the Dashboard and Chandler decided to move
on its own to the Out collection.
In a traditional mail app (Thunderbird, Outlook, etc) the folder
one is reading and responding to mail in
does not change because a user hits the reply or forward button.
To sum up I think users will get confused and I don't see a benefit
to doing it.
Thats my two sense.
Thoughts?
-Brian
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