[kdepim-users] Re: [opensuse] Kmail preview pane

[Alan McKinnon]

On Sunday 03 April 2011 15:35:40 Anne Wilson wrote:
> On Sunday 03 April 2011 09:32:13 Stan Goodman wrote:
> > > > > If you want to show an HTML message as HTML then you need to
> > > > > enable "Prefer HTML to Plain Text" for the folder temporarily.
> > 
> > That's a step backward. Clearly, I am not going to reconfigure Kmail per
> > message received.
> 
> HTML mail that is acceptable to you usually comes from specific sources.  I
> get emails from several companies that I trust, even though they do use
> HTML
> 
> :-) so I have a Newsletter folder and filter all mail from those companies
> 
> into that folder.  That folder is set to display HTML while other mail goes
> to plain text folders.  The rare times I get an HTML message that isn't
> from them, I either drag it to that folder, or temporarily enable it, but
> it's a fairly rare occurrence.  It's no bother this way, and it works
> perfectly for me.


Yes, that's very nice but expecting users to jump through those hoops is brain 
dead. Removing the structure view is brain dead.

Look, think of it like this:

Mail often consists of various parts. I want to see the parts, then cause an 
obvious action to happen if I click on the name of a part.

Now, what makes more sense?

a. A view structure pane
b. Do some other weird bizarre thing involving filters (Huh? WTF? I DON'T WANT 
TO FILTER THIS STUFF. I WANT TO VIEW IT). And oh yeah, the filter will only 
ever be used once.

This is my first post here and I usually try to avoid first posts being 
critical ones. But the kdepim devs are showing every sign of being brain-dead 
most notably the one where asking users what they think seems to be beyond 
their capabilities.


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alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com
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