Tuesday, August 21, 2007, 2:45:42 PM, you wrote: > On Tuesday, August 21, 2007, 20:19:40, Indie_Dev wrote:
>> 3) In threaded view, why is there no option (not even in the >> right-click menu) to expand or collapse a thread? I have discussion >> threads going back several months. If someone replies, I have to troll >> through many - many - many - many trees (of the same thread due to >> discussion branching) to get to the current 'unread' message or a >> particular message that I'm looking for. Sure if you're looking for >> unread messages, you can use the 'Unread' view to see a new incoming >> message, but thats not the point. > The treeview behaves similar as the standard Windows treeviews - > pressing * will expand all threads, and pressing Ctrl++ will expand > current thread. You can also use spacebar to jump to the next unread > message (after paging through current message), which is another > function common to many mail and newsreaders. Alternatively, you can > use Ctrl+] to jump straight to the next unread message. I know about the hotkeys and _how_ they work. Was I talking about hotkeys? Did I even mention hotkeys? No, I didn't. I was talking about menus. > The right-click menu in headers pane is already pretty cluttered, and > I don't think adding even more options to it would improve it > (besides, I have yet to see a treeview which has these options in a > menu). In the right-click/thread dialog, I see only....seven.... options. How does adding two more, make it cluttered; when in fact that right-click itself has no less than 24 options? e.g. right-click/thread/expand-all right-click/thread/collapse-all In interface and GUI design (u may or may not be aware of this) a hotkey usually corresponds to a menu option as per Microsoft's specs for accessibility and whatnot. If you'd like, I can dig up the correct MSDN and/or technet specs for you. So, making use of the hotkeys is one thing. Having corresponding menu options is clearly another. Having one without the other is an inconsistency - and that which my email served to point out. -- cheers, Indie_Dev ________________________________________________________ Current beta is 3.99.20 | 'Using TBBETA' information: http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html
