/me notes that the CC list on this thread was getting rather large -- So I only replied to the list (I assume everyone on the CC list is on the list as well, right?)
On Fri, 2003-09-05 at 13:34, Ettore Perazzoli wrote: > On Fri, 2003-09-05 at 15:31, Mike Kestner wrote: > > I'm assuming he's talking about scrolling the msglist to it, not > > necessarily selecting it. We currently open folders scrolled to the > > top, with no messages selected, when they are first opened. This would > > essentially be the same thing, only scrolled to the "likely" first > > interesting message to select. Now that would be very nice behavior -- not so in-your-face as actually selecting and previewing the message, but helpful instead. I wouldn't mind this behavior if it wasn't optional (in fact, I think it would be quite nice). But automatically selecting and previewing the new message goes too far, and *really* needs to be optional. > I am actually talking about selecting it too... That's OK, as long as it's optional (in fact, I'd even use it on some folders, if it was optional on a per-folder basis). But *PLEASE* don't implement this globally without an option to turn it off. > If the problem is not wanting to look at spam messages before deleting > you (which I understand), Well, that's one scenario -- but I can come up with a few more where automatically selecting the message is the wrong thing to do. Scenario 1) I get a *lot* of mail, and I use procmail to pre-sort it into 20-30 folders on the server (mailing lists, sysadmin stuff, spam, etc...). Many times, I'll want to take a look in a particular folder, just to see if there are any interesting new threads -- I don't want to read the messages, or have any of them selected or marked read -- I just want to scan the subject lines. Yet later, when I have more time, I'll want to read some of the mail in that folder (and I like to read mail in the preview pane BTW). Automatically selecting the first unread message (and marking it read immediately, since that's how I set my preferences) every time I open said folder is going to get *really* irritating. Scenario 2) I fat-finger the mouse, and select the wrong folder unintentionally -- since I didn't actually want to read this folder, I now have to stop, mark the currently selected message as unread, then select the folder I intended to select -- very annoying... If two scenarios aren't enough to get the point across, I'm sure I can come up with more... *Please* don't implement something like this unilaterally without making it optional. ;o) > then one could just turn off the preview pane > for the spam folder?.. In that case the message would be selected but > nothing would be displayed. You mean you're willing to have the preview pane be optional on a per-folder basis, but not this behavior? I don't get it... Cheers! -- Brett Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - i n v e n t - _______________________________________________ evolution-hackers maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/evolution-hackers
