Kenneth Pardue wrote:
> Not to toot the Devil's horn too much, but will the future NS/Mozilla
> work with the mail notification on the Windows XP user login screen
> (where it says a user has x number of messages on y account).
I think that this feature already exists. But as I don't have Windows
XP, I couldn't say for sure.
> In mail, will it inform me that I have message in the taskbar?
Not right now, but work is being done on this.
> Stay there until all my messages are
> read, go away once I open Netscape Mail, etc.?
It will stay there until you read one of the new messages.
> Will it function
> correctly when all my browser/mail windows are closed?
Doubtful. But this is a known wish, and at some time this will probably
be possible.
> Will newsgroups allow to you watch a thread, being able to highlight it?
This is possible (see Watch Thread in the message menu).
However, right now there's no visual indication if you watch a thread
(Using View/Messages/Watched Threads with unread works, though.) This is
a known issue.
> I noticed that Netscape seems to automatically check the newsgroups and
> download headers when the mail program is launched, will it highlight
> the newsgroup if there are new messages to the watched thread (again,
> not to toot the Devil's horn with OE).
Hm, I don't think this is possible right know, and I'm not sure if this
is planned for the future.
> Will there (finally) be some themes coming out more often after 1.0?
Well, if theme designers will design some themes, yes, else no ;)
> Maybe it's me, but the modern color scheme looks kinda drab compared to
> the high contrasting colors of XP.
I'm pretty sure that the classic theme looks much more like your XP
Theme than Modern.
> Will it be able to integrate all of the streaming players, Real, Windows
> Media, or whatever. It already does quicktime rather well, doesn't it?
Well, all three of them work for me (on windows).
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