Style guide decision needed (was: [Kopete-devel] Bug#40938: behaviour change request)

[Oswald Buddenhagen]

disclaimer: i never even looked at kopete. :)

> I just used it since it moved to kde cvs, but I never found Ctrl-Enter
> until someone said it in this thread (again, imagine when will the
> average user find it).
> 
ever thought about a shortcut on the submit button? a tooltip for the
button won't hurt, too. and then, you can put the submit action in some
menu, where ctrl-enter is shown along with it - the person who still
misses it doesn't deserve anything else.

> I thought Ctrl-Enter was bound to "send mail now". I never thought
> Ctrl-Enter was a way to submit what I wrote since a mail is much
> different than a sentence (which is what I send to the people I talk
> to, as opposed to people I write to, just sentences, in separate
> lines).
> 
but you are just plainly wrong. :)
im is NOT like irc (icq has an explicit chat mode for this purpose -
just in case you didn't know). you have to explicitly take action to see
the next message (at least in every im client i know). so splitting
logical blocks into separate messages is just stupid. you should
consider ims small mails. i for one use both quotation (it sucks to be
talking about multiple things at once and often having difficulty to
non-ambiguously assign the replies) and paragraphs in them.

> IMHO kopete should always support them on "receive", but only to send
> them when the appropiate option is set
>
nonsense. by introducing such asymmetry you basically admit, that _you_
are non-conformant, not everybody else.

greetings

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