On Monday, May 30, 2005, 3:40:05 PM, Peter Hampf wrote: > Good evening Munango-Keewati,
> on Mon, 30 May 2005 13:24:11 -0500 GMT your local time you wrote: >>> It must NOT hide the read messages inside these folders. MK>> Please explain why I would want to know which folders have unread MK>> messages, but not see those messages. > Because of the better overview. Imagine you have 10+ Accounts with doozens of > folders in each account this feature is a great advantage! I'm afraid it is not obvious to me why this would be a particular advantage, unless you were using it to read new (unread) messages. In that case, seeing read and unread by default doesn't seem to be advantageous. > As said by MAU and others you can easily get what you want if you advise TB to > show only unread messages. BTW, if TB would do that by default, one > disadvantage would be that you'd loose the context in threaded folders. Or it could work in reverse, showing unread messages by default (after all, we are talking about the UNREAD tab), and then YOU could use whatever method you like to make it show both. As to context, those read messages would only be a click on the All tab away. What you have to ask yourself is, how often do most users want to see read messages along with the unread ones? My guess is that the answer would be, "Occasionally." Occasional needs should not be the basis for default behavior. MK>> A good piece of software works intuitively out of the box and doesn't rely MK>> on hard-to-find settings to do normal, everytime things. > For ME the current behaviour is exactly MY everytime thing! I doubt most users have ten accounts or often need to drill back to earlier messages to find the context. Default behavior should be based on what most users (especially those who might be switching to The Bat from other software) want to do most of the time. -- Best, M-K Using The Bat! v3.0.1.33 on Windows 98 4.10 Build 2222 A ________________________________________________________ Current beta is 3.5.23 | 'Using TBBETA' information: http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html IMPORTANT: To register as a Beta tester, use this link first - http://www.ritlabs.com/en/partners/testers/
