Alec Flett wrote:
>...
> and I hit "next" until I run out of messages in Folder2, it goes to
> INBOX before it hits Folder1 on ServerB. It drove me crazy in 4.x when
> I would advance to the next server before the I was done with the
> current server.
>
> So the suggestion is that when cross-folder navigation IS fixed to
> property hit the "next" folder, we try to finish up folders in the
> current server, before moving onto the next one
>...
Ewwww. That would drive *me* crazy.
On startup, Mozilla starts in your Inbox (for a mail account), which is
given special placement as the first folder in the account. So if you
normally use cross-folder navigation, but are in the position you
describe -- in a folder *below* a folder containing unread messages --
it is almost always because you have explicitly chosen to skip those
unread messages for the time being.
Now, if you had explicitly decided to skip a particular folder (by
clicking it or arrowing to a folder which came after it), under your
proposal cross-folder navigation would still offer to take you back to
that folder -- and would effectively insist that you read (or mark as
read) the messages in that folder before you could go anywhere else.
`No, you stupid lizard, I *avoided* that folder, I *don't* want to read
it now ...'
Also, doing what you suggest would go against the obvious meaning of
`Next' as something which comes *after* the current thing.
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Matthew `mpt' Thomas, Mozilla user interface QA
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