Hello Dave, On Tue, 22 Oct 2002 11:28:58 -0700 GMT (23/10/02, 01:28 +0700 GMT), Dave Crocker wrote:
> The banner is great if you do not get much mail. As a slow, serial > display mechanism, it does not work well if it needs to show very > much or show it quickly. When there are lots of new messages, the > banner mechanism bogs down. That's the reason I don't use the banner/ticker. > I wonder whether anyone besides me would find it useful to have new > messages indicated in more than the banner. For example, what if > there were a third choice for the icons in the account tree pane and > in the folder summary pane? So, the icon would show basic, unread, > or new. (new implies unread, of course.) This is a long-standing wish. It resulted in Ritlabs giving us the the possibility of "flagging" messages (ctrl-G). I use the flags to indicate that I still have to reply to messages. I wish that there would be an indication in the folder list that a folder contains flagged messages. Alas, this is not possible, as everyone uses the flags differently, and at many people's Bats, all folder would be marked thus. With the basic/unread/new philosophy, we have not arrived at a definition of "unread" versus "new". When is a message not new anymore, but merely unread? After a certain time, at the next mailcheck (which for some people is a minute later) or at next TB startup (but some people run TB 24/7)? What would be your suggestion? -- Cheers, Thomas. Moderator der deutschen The Bat! Beginner Liste. "No one ever says "It's only a game," when their team is winning." Message reply created with The Bat! 1.62/Beta7 under Chinese Windows 98 4.10 Build 2222 A using an AMD Athlon K7 1.2GHz, 128MB RAM ________________________________________________ Current version is 1.61 | "Using TBUDL" information: http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html
