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

[Anne Wilson]

On 12/05/2011 07:18 PM, Torgny Nyblom wrote:
> On Monday 05 December 2011 18.45.46 Anne Wilson wrote:
>> On 12/05/2011 06:03 PM, Torgny Nyblom wrote:
>>> I fail to see how that will affect long-term KMail users as for
>>> them nothing changes. Also a long term user will have no problem
>>> changing the setting if they should install from scratch. However
>>> new users are more inclined to see it as a short coming that
>>> KMail cannot show them their mails as they are used to from the
>>> MS world.
>> 
>> On a number of occasions we have been treated to an unannounced
>> preview of this - that is, a KMail update has switched on html
>> composing without notice.  It is infuriating to find that you have
>> been sending html messages to people who prefer not to get them,
>> just because your own settings are being ignored.  For those of us
>> that have stuck with KMail through thick and thin, this *is* a big
>> deal, and I am certain that you will lose many such users, the very
>> ones that help the newbies.
> 
> This is not for composing but for reading.
> 
You don't propose to do both reading and writing in the same release?
So all the proponents of html will still be weeping.  You won't have
pleased them, and you'll have hurt your long-term users.  Doesn't sound
sensible to me.


Anne
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