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

[Anne Wilson]

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.

Anne
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