I tried unsuccessfully to post this on Robert Kaiser's thread started 12/21 (thread closed?):
"This is not a long-range, philosophical view, but rather a near-term, nuts and bolts suggestion for improving SeaMonkey. If my recollection of the way things currently work is incorrect please let me know and I will gladly admit to a mistake. When you are not a programmer or developer, you can make possibly unachievable wild-ass suggestions for features without fear of embarrassing yourself (feel free to disagree on that). Anyway, I will avail myself of that luxury here. IMO the suite would benefit greatly (and I would return to using SM rather than Thunderbird for email) if the profile could be split up into two parts, browser and email/news. That way, when you created a new profile as a corrective, you would have the option of maintaining your existing email set-up and data. With constant and necessary upgrades to the base program, themes and extensions, and merely through the normal course of using the browser, things will eventually get sluggish or corrupted, developer mistakes will creep in and then may be retroactively corrected with unintended consequences, and so forth. With the exception of a totally clean re-installation, creating a new profile is the most effective way of dealing with this, but it can be almost as burdensome. Currently I try to achieve the equivalent of suite integration through minimize-to-tray in both programs, but the extension is a bit dodgy (it doesn't even show up in the uninstaller api in SM 1.1.x), and I suspect it is the cause of some SM shortcomings that I put up with. From a time spent, complexity, and frustration level standpoint, moving email and email settings that are inherently OK is not within the scope of what a normal user, even an enthusiastic one, should be doing, or wants to be doing, and I think it serves as a disincentive to adopting the suite by other than computer devotees. Anyway, my two cents. Regards, RF" _______________________________________________ support-seamonkey mailing list [email protected] https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
