On Sun, 2 Jun 2002 10:42:07 -0400 Jonathan Arnold <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

JA> > JA> But I can't do anything with it. If I right click on it, and say "Create
JA> > JA> New Folder", and create a new anything, it goes to the top level, not 
JA> > JA> as a child of the folder I right clicked on. 
JA> >  Hmm, this is probably/surely a bug in the wizard -- I'll check it. As I
JA> 
JA> I will also take a look at it, if you'd like.

 It would of course be great -- TIA!

JA> > JA> Right now, once a folder is created, it can never
JA> > JA> be moved in the tree, it seems.
JA> >  No because it presents some problems... I.e. it's not clear what exactly
JA> > should it do. The same questions arise for dnd as well.
JA> 
JA> I'm not sure what you mean by it not being clear. From a user
JA> standpoint, it's pretty obvious - the selected folder should now
JA> become a child of the newly select parent. 

 Questions:

1. should it be physically moved as well? I.e. when you drag a foo/bar
   IMAP folder to baz folder, shouldn't you issue IMAP "RENAME foo/bar
   baz/bar" command as well? But if you drag it to, say, POP folder, it
   is impossible to move folder like this, so it seems like you sometimes
   have to physically move the folder as well but not always -- isn't this
   confusing?

2. which settings should the folder keep? Remember that it inherits them
   from its parent, but if it is going to have a new parent, should it
   adapt the new settings or not? If yes, dragging an IMAP folder to
   another IMAP server (with different username/password) and not
   physically copying it will make it inaccessible. If not, it might
   defeat the whole purpose of moving it.

JA> >  I don't think so: you can still create a folder by using the main menu but
JA> > the right click menu proposes only the "common" actions and this is not one
JA> > of them.
JA> 
JA> Again, I don't think options should be willfully held back from the
JA> user. It was especially confusing to me, as having a disabled menu
JA> item means to me that that operation is not at all possible. It should
JA> either be enabled (by far my preference) or removed entirely. Why make
JA> things more difficult for the user? It is something at least I want to
JA> do all the time - create a sub-folder.

 But do you really want to create a subfolder of a POP folder (for which
this command is disabled) all the time? I don't think so.

 Regards,
VZ


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