On Wed, 2010-07-14 at 14:27 -0400, Paul Smith wrote: <snip>
> What I'd really like to see is a "reply publicly" operation, which is > the standard one that is used by default (the standard key binding and > the standard button), which by default "does the right thing" to create > a public reply to the message, as best as can be discovered and > interpreted by Evo based on RFC's, best practices, etc. This "right > thing" would change based on the message being read (e.g., based on > List-Post headers). I wholeheartedly agree with this suggestion! It's basically the same I had in mind when I suggested the "magic reply" option. I have seen a lot of emphasis on the knowledgeable user who want power to reply exactly the way they want - I can understand! But for the majority, you just want to hit reply and have evolution do The Right Thing[TM]. I consider myself quite able to understand the different ways of replying to e-mail, and yet I find myself often having to manually edit the headers of a half-composed email, or discarding it and starting anew, because I forgot to reply the right way. And 99.999% of the time the "right way" described above fits my needs perfectly and the remaining .001% of the time I would be vary conscious of selecting the right option to reply. It's like my digital camera. I understand the need to be able to set the right exposure, focus distance, etc., but most of the time I simply want to set it to "Auto" and not bother with the details. > I'm also happy if there are alternatives for specific situations. > Someone mentioned having a drop-down list off the reply to all button, > like we do for forward, and actually I think that might be a good > solution. By default have the "reply publicly" button do the heuristic > "reply to everyone" (I guess this would be more-or-less equivalent to > the Ctrl-L operation above), then have some drop-down menu options for > alternatives. Again, I agree. I don't want to take away the power to select exactly how to reply in specific instances. > A preference that lets you select your preferred default "reply > publicly" operation would be nice as well (I think we have something > like that for forward). The values could be "Best effort" (default), > "All recipients", etc. That might actually be complicating things a bit too much, though. But if it was implemented, it could be that one option was to make it reply _privately_. (In that case it's name couldn't be "Reply Publicly", though). If done, the pop-up (mentioned before) when replying to a list, could in fact be a pop-up asking you how you want to reply, and an option to set that as the default way to reply. Best, Kåre _______________________________________________ evolution-list mailing list [email protected] To change your list options or unsubscribe, visit ... http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/evolution-list
