[Users] Claws config needs much better documentation

[Sitaram Chamarty]

On Sun, Jul 29, 2012 at 3:03 PM, Paul <claws at thewildbeast.co.uk> wrote:
> On Sun, 29 Jul 2012 06:06:36 +0530
> Sitaram Chamarty <sitaramc at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> The default for "Open message when selected" (in Display/Summaries)
>> is unsafe.
>>
>> I'm one of those guys who goes through every menu/setting in detail
>> when exploring a new program so I caught that early but I can
>> certainly imagine a new user migrating from almost any other mail
>> client losing stuff due to this problem because no other program
>> does this -- make the message list and message body go out of sync.
>
> To be fair, that's slightly overstated. You don't lose stuff, it goes
> to the trash folder. Also, the user would have to not notice that as

IMO that's still pretty bad.

The real problem is it's not intuitive to a lot of people.  Violates
principle of least astonishment (or some such name).

> he moves through the message list with the cursor keys the message
> view does not change.
>
> But, having said that, perhaps the default for that option could be
> changed.

yes please, even though it won't affect me and I caught it before it
did when I first started using it.