On Mon, 25 Feb 2002 18:59:52 -0400 Dmitry Kirsanov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

DK> It is useful if you only want to go to a next/prev folder in the list 
DK> and then jump to messages. Much more often, when you have more than a 
DK> few folders (and I have about 20), you want to go to a folder which is 
DK> several steps away from your current one. And in this case, the 
DK> program's attempts to be "too smart" by jumping me to messages without 
DK> asking becomes an annoyance.

 Yes, I agree - again, this is why I don't use this option.

DK> So please don't forget about people using keyboard too :) (I see no real 
DK> reason to use mouse with this kind of program at all - it's not a 
DK> graphic editor after all, so everything should be easily accessible via 
DK> keyboard.)

 But I don't use the mouse with it (except for clicking on the attachments
- although this can be done from keyboard as well it is really
inconvenient).

DK> >  What's wrong with keeping this option off and using Enter to open the
DK> > folder?
DK> 
DK> The extra keypress is a nuisance, especially when it's so easy to avoid 
DK> it by slightly changing the behavior of the interface.

 It's not difficult but I wouldn't say that it's "so easy" neither. Worse,
I'm afraid that some people would be unhappy with this as well: "why isn't
the folder I select opened immediately?" or "why if I move too slowly
through the tree is the folder I don't want to open opened?".

 Please enter this into the bug tracker and I'll think about it when I have
time for it but it's surely not something I'm going to in the near future.
Of course, if someone else wants to do this, it's another story.

DK> >  You can scroll by line by pressing Enter.
DK> 
DK> This is VERY counter-intuitive and limited. PLEASE consider making the 
DK> message panel fully scrollable by arrow keys, pgdn/pgup, home/end, etc, 
DK> by making it possible to move focus to it and from it by tab/shift-tab. 
DK> This would be much more logical and convenient.

 I agree that Enter is not intuitive and I'll try to use space for this
instead but I personally would *hate* having to focus the viewer to scroll
it. Right now you can read several unread messages by just using PgDn or
Enter (i.e. *1*) key, it would be a huge step backwards to require using
Tab to do this.

DK> Just treat the messages viewed as pages viewed in a browser - remember 
DK> what messages in what folders were displayed in the message display 
DK> panel and allow to navigate back and forth in this sequence. For example 
DK> I read a message from A in my inbox, then I go to my Sent Mail to see 
DK> what I wrote to that person previously, then I go to the Archive folder 
DK> to read my past messages, etc. After all this, I want to be able to 
DK> reverse all my movements and get back to the message from A in the inbox 
DK> without having to search for it, but simply by pressing alt-left a few 
DK> times. (And then return to the Archive messages I was viewing by 
DK> pressing alt-right a few times.)

 Yes, it's a good idea. This depends on the bug 609 but once it is done it
should be possible to implement it relatively easily - please add it to the
bug tracker, thanks.

 Regards,
VZ


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