[Kde-pim] Bug 262386 - allow HTML by default

[Ingo Klöcker]

On Tuesday 06 December 2011, Torgny Nyblom wrote:
> On Tuesday 06 December 2011 10.20.24 Anne Wilson wrote:
> > On 12/05/2011 07:51 PM, Torgny Nyblom wrote:
> > > On Monday 05 December 2011 19.33.36 Anne Wilson wrote:
> > >> On 12/05/2011 07:18 PM, Torgny Nyblom wrote:
> > > [...]
> > > 
> > >>> This is not for composing but for reading.
> > >> 
> > >> You don't propose to do both reading and writing in the same
> > >> release?
> > > 
> > > I'm not proposing anything I'm asking for input. Apart from that
> > > I do not intend in anyway to enable HTML composing as default at
> > > this time.
> > > 
> > >> So all the proponents of html will still be weeping.
> > > 
> > > As I see it there are two distinct use cases:
> > > 
> > > * Read mail as the sender intended it to be read - This bug or
> > > the "Prefer HTML" option * Write mails with rich text features -
> > > Composing HTML mail
> > 
> > Those who prefer plain text already make a decision, one way or the
> > other.  Those newbies you spoke of will find it incredibly annoying
> > to be able to read html (default is what they will see as normal)
> > but not reply in html, so they will be even more unhappy than if
> > we tell them why we believe html mail is not a good idea.
> > 
> > >> You won't have pleased them, and you'll have hurt your long-term
> > >> users.  Doesn't sound sensible to me.
> > > 
> > > How will this hurt long time users? I fail to see how enabling
> > > this will hurt them.
> > 
> > No, if it's read-only it won't hurt them, but it will annoy them.
> > Speaking frankly, we don't want to lose loyal users over this. 
> > Recent experiences have driven too many away already.
> 
> Also we need to attract new users.

Do you really expect to attract new users by changing defaults?


Regards,
Ingo
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