David Tenser wrote: > > Matt Williams wrote: > >> David, for those of us who are novice users what are the things you >> would like to see added/changed/fixed. > > > Various things. Some examples (please let me know if something requested > here is already in there!): > > * General: better toolbar customizations > The ability to add/remove any button/command > Ability to turn off captions > Ability to move around buttons in the toolbar > Ability to move the whole toolbar. Perhaps even the menu > and address field, like in IE?
As an average user these all sound both good and useful > > * General: Ability to change keyboard shortcuts. This is something that > many programs lacks, including IE. If you use a particular feature > often, you should be able to assign a keyboard shortcut to it. Excellent > > * Browser: Ability to change icons on bookmarks. For instance, a sun on > my local weather homepage. I don't see that option here, but maybe it's > in there already? This smacks me as cosmetic at best. What gain does the average user get from having icons when it is the words we read? > > * Mail client: better filtering options. > Forwarding > Multiple actions (like forward message AND move it to folder) > Coloring (color all love letters red! :) ) Excellent > > * Mail client: Option to use one single Inbox folder for all accounts > I find it confusing to be able to click on different Inboxes just > to read all new email. Of course, I could set up filtering rules to > move all mail to one Inbox... As an average user who subscribes to 15 "birding" listservs with 200+ messages arriving every day, I would find your suggested enhancement extremely painful. I would hate to have to sift through all my Birding e-mails to get to my business and/or personal e-mails > > * Mail client: The default action when clicking on "Get Msgs" should be > to get ALL new messages, not just the highlighted account. If you only > want to download a particular account, click the little arrow. Right now > it's the opposite logic. Again, I would find your suggestion cumbersome, although much less so than your concept of a unified Inbox. Actually when I think of it it's not that it is bad, it just doesn't really add any efficiency to my workflow > > * Mail client: When loading the client, you can't click the "Get Msgs" > button. I'm sure the bug is already reported so I don't report it. So if I understand you correctly the issue is that Get Messages doesn't work unless you are clicked on an actual folder rather than an account. How would you decide which account to choose for those users who have three or four accounts in their profile (as I do)? > > I could go on forever, but this is what I could think of right now. As > you might notice, I don't ask for better DOM compliance or for them to > fix security hole #513. I want the program to be as usable as possible, > so I can get rid of IE and OE. :) > >> In the month I have been reading this newsgroup I have learned two >> things 1) lots of ways to be a better user and 2) just how little I >> knew prior to subscribing to the newsgroup . . . and I keep on learning. > > > This is one undoubted fact: Mozilla users are far more advanced and > experienced than IE users. If everyone had the will to learn, we would > all be using Mozilla instead of IE. I'm slowly starting to inform my > friends that there is an alternative out there. As the development > progress, I'll be installing Mozilla on their machines too :) > > / David >
