> DK> Also, now it does open a folder when I move cursor to it, but it also > DK> jumps focus to the message window at once, which I don't need. > > IMHO it is normal that the focus is given to the message window when the > folder is opened - it is the most useful behaviour.
It is useful if you only want to go to a next/prev folder in the list and then jump to messages. Much more often, when you have more than a few folders (and I have about 20), you want to go to a folder which is several steps away from your current one. And in this case, the program's attempts to be "too smart" by jumping me to messages without asking becomes an annoyance. > DK> tries to open it immediately, which may take some time if it's big. For > DK> these two reasons it is nearly impossible to go from folder A to folder > DK> B using keyboard if there are several other folders between them in the > DK> list. > > Yes, this is why I don't like to have this option on. It's really for the > people using mouse, not keyboard. So please don't forget about people using keyboard too :) (I see no real reason to use mouse with this kind of program at all - it's not a graphic editor after all, so everything should be easily accessible via keyboard.) > DK> So I think you should remove jumping to the message list panel on > DK> opening and add a small delay between getting focus and trying to open > DK> the folder, so that it is possible to navigate in the tree panel using > DK> keyboard. > > What's wrong with keeping this option off and using Enter to open the > folder? The extra keypress is a nuisance, especially when it's so easy to avoid it by slightly changing the behavior of the interface. > DK> Now when you are in the message list, page down/up works > DK> on the message itself if it is long, but up/down works on the list > DK> itself, which is really confusing. If I see three panels, I want to be > DK> able to visit all of them to be able to scroll within each one > DK> independently. > > You can scroll by line by pressing Enter. This is VERY counter-intuitive and limited. PLEASE consider making the message panel fully scrollable by arrow keys, pgdn/pgup, home/end, etc, by making it possible to move focus to it and from it by tab/shift-tab. This would be much more logical and convenient. > DK> - One great feature that I'm missing a lot (it was in the old Netscape > DK> mail) is being able to go back and forth along the sequence of messages > DK> that were read recently, even across folders. > > Sorry, what is a "sequence of messages that were read recently"? I.e. how > do you define this, how should it behave - an example, maybe? I really > don't see what do you mean. Just treat the messages viewed as pages viewed in a browser - remember what messages in what folders were displayed in the message display panel and allow to navigate back and forth in this sequence. For example I read a message from A in my inbox, then I go to my Sent Mail to see what I wrote to that person previously, then I go to the Archive folder to read my past messages, etc. After all this, I want to be able to reverse all my movements and get back to the message from A in the inbox without having to search for it, but simply by pressing alt-left a few times. (And then return to the Archive messages I was viewing by pressing alt-right a few times.) -- Dmitry Kirsanov http://www.kirsanov.com _______________________________________________ Mahogany-Users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/mahogany-users
