[Users] Claws Mail 3.14.1 unleashed!!

[Ralf Hutter]

I, too, agree with steffen.
Ralf

On Thu, 10 Nov 2016 14:04:06 +0100 Steffen Klemer <moh at gmx.org> wrote:

> Am Thu, 10.11.2016 um 13:39 schrieb Andrej Kacian <andrej at kacian.sk>:
> 
> > What you're asking for is having "selecting", and then "another kind
> > of selecting", and have each of these two behave differently - which
> > is obviously confusing for a new user.
> 
> No, not really. Yes, this would solve my problem. Great and thank
> you ;). (honestly! Claws is by far the most used and greatest piece of
> software of my life)
> 
> But I'm trying to make a point that 'Go to' is something different
> then select. If I take your argument a bit further it would mean that
> the preview should not show the mail when I click on (select) a mail
> in the list. If I think about it ... the current, new behavior should
> be called 'select next message', 'select next unread'. And the old
> behavior 'go to next'...
> 
> I'm still struggling to find a use case for 'select next message'.
> 
> 
> > I know where you're coming from, this change has affected my
> > workflow as well, but reverting it is not a good idea. We're
> > probably going to add additional option(s) to allow tweaking this
> > behaviour in more detail, but it takes time to come up with a
> > design that makes sense, and at the same time doesn't require the
> > user to have a degree in Claws Mail internals.
> 
> Actually, what is most disturbing for me with the new setting is the
> automatic select and open of a message when I open a folder. This
> removes the 'unread' status of a more or less random-felt mail
> (depends on unread and unseen status. Setting 'mark unread after 1s'
> or so also doesn't help for my use case of going back to my default
> mailbox after checking the others.
> 
> I see the point that it would also be confusing NOT to select and open
> a mail when opening a folder. Actually this was changed some years ago
> to the current behavior to stay consistent.
> 
> But anyway -- it breaks my user experience :P. I don't like it if
> something happens magically without me noticing it. And this is the
> case now when opening a folder (having 'open selected mail' und 'mark
> unread' enabled).
> 
> 
> Steffen
> 
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