Wednesday, August 22, 2007, 3:52:41 PM, you wrote: > In reply to <mid:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> :
>>> It seems illogical for it to work that way with that view setting. It >>> seems you want to bend TB! to conform to you instead of learning how >>> to use the program. Thunderbird needs a developer, seems like a golden >>> opportunity for you. TB! is chock full of stuff not found elsewhere. >>> Is it perfect? What is? I>> Thats a pretty odd assumption. I>> If you can select all messages in one dialog and not the other, when I>> in fact BOTH dialogs offer the _same_ functionality, thats 100% I>> wrong and _inconsistent_. There's absolutely no argument there, unless I>> of course you're a fan of straw arguments. > It's not exactly the same functionality so it's not that inconsistent. > Who said that they should behave exactly the same way? Oh? Please explain why its not the same functionality. The _only_ difference between the two, is the view. Which is why we have... View/Attached Files/Hide (to button) View/Attached Files/Hide (to pane) View/Attached Files/Hide To me, when you see a cluster of such functionality, they are doing the same thing but giving the choice of how you want that data presented. So, - if I choose option #1, I can only delete a bunch of attachments, one by one. This is due to how the dialog was constructed. - if I choose option #2, I can delete a bunch of attachments one by one or collectively (as per Windows conventions). This is due to how the dialog was constructed. The fact you can do one thing - to reach the same end goal - in one and not the other, is an inconsistency. By your argument, I shouldn't be able to do CTRL+A to select all (text, objects or whatever) when viewing a text document in, say, MS Word, because I happened to have a picture visible at the same time. > I don't if you're going accept this comparison as reasonable but here > goes: "Thumbnail" view is one of the available views in Explorer were > it's possible to see the content of picture files before opening and > that's not possible in any of the available views. Its possible to CTRL+A in any view and delete all files from the view. The viewing of thumbnails presents completely different functionality from, say, displaying a list of files. So, it stands to reason that functionality would be different. In the case of this pane vs button ability to do CTRL+A, the functionality presented by _both_ is _identical_ i.e. you can view and delete attachments. The only problem is that it is _inconsistent_ in that you can delete all attachments in one but not the other. Oh, and the manual doesn't tell you this, nor why its this way. Just an FYI. > To mimic the functionality of the attachment pane to the attachments > button it would have to be possible to choose any random set of files > for deletion because its one of the possible thing you can do with the > pane view. Wrong. See my above explanation about 'functionality'. The functionality of the 'attachment display' has nothing to do with 'randomnesss' since the population of that [attachments] list is not random i.e. it displays attachments, not random bits of data objects pulled from elsewhere (as in random). -- cheers, Indie_Dev ________________________________________________________ Current beta is 3.99.20 | 'Using TBBETA' information: http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html
