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

[Torgny Nyblom]

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.

/Regards
Torgny
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