Orrin Edenfield wrote:
> It should be an option. I kinda like it. Makes it look more powerful.
> I noticed that the page that is displayed is different for Local
> Folders, and a Mail account, and they are both different then the page
> that is displayed when a newsgroup is selected. How would you edit this
> page, and maybe make a link that would check email on that account?
>
> WAIT! What if you could set like account properties to be displayed..
> say for instance, you could change the server name or address from that
> page?!?! The top two links on that page are clickable on the same
> screen (read email, compose email). Make it more usefull... stick
> the account prefrences there, along with an Apply button.
> And definatly make THAT an option, because some people might not want it
> to be easy to change a mail server address.
>
> Austin Marshall wrote:
>
>> Sebastian Späth wrote:
>>
>>> Daniel Bratell wrote:
>>>
>>>>> I just downloaded and installed build 2001021508 which is version
>>>>> 0.8 and to my surprise, there is an outlook-like screen in my face
>>>>> laughing at me. I use Mozilla because the mail suite didn't leave
>>>>> me feeling like a moron, like Outlook has done in the past. So,
>>>>> this begs the question, how do i disable it? and make it look like
>>>>> the previous versions.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>>> What do you wnat to be shown there instead? User studies showed that
>>>> users were confused by a completely empty screen.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> That's why these user have the option to get
>>> http://mozilla.org/mailnews/start.html as their startpage for
>>> mailnews in the preferences. Configurable to any page or to turn off,
>>> that's cool.
>>>
>>> But showing that thing on all starts makes me feel like a moron who
>>> needs to get
>>> a helping hand every time I want to check mail. Better to provide a
>>> good tutorial
>>> on how to learn to use Mozilla the real way, instead of adding this
>>> "Well, we know you don't know what to do now, so that's what we
>>> suggest you to do now" page.
>>>
>>> Sebastian
>>
>>
>>
>> I totally agree, however, i seem to be the only want that has this
>> problem becase no one has brought it up yet, could be becase it's not
>> a clean install. But the http://www.mozilla.org/mailnews/start.html
>> at startup doesn't seem to do anything, instead, it writes the "Well,
>> we know you don't know what to do now, so that's what we suggest you
>> to do now" over both panes, blocking the start page making the option
>> pointless. Could this be a bug?
>>
i was happy with the way it was in 0.7, that's all i'm saying, i just
want to know how to disable the "You're an idiot, and this is what you
need to do to access your mail" page, and bring up the fact that, the
mail star page option is pointless because it gets covered up by the
thing that annoys me the most.
