[Users] [Bulk] Re: Claws config needs much better documentation

[Steve Litt]

On Tue, 31 Jul 2012 00:33:38 +0200, Michael Gmelin said:
> 
> 
> On Mon, 30 Jul 2012 18:16:36 -0400
> Steve Litt <slitt at troubleshooters.com> wrote:
> 

> > 
> > If it were me, the only change I'd make to the "lazy body download"
> > method would be that, if the highlighted message's body hasn't been
> > downloaded yet, show a blank body, not the body of the previous and
> > completely unrelated message.
> 
> Hm, but this is part of what makes this feature useful to me. I can
> skim through the message list without losing the one open. I can also
> delete and move other messages without losing what's open. All very
> useful to me. Workflows can be a very personal thing :)

You're not kidding. When I first saw Claws' "Mark instead of delete", I
thought it was a bug. I actually still do. But it's a darn useful
"bug", and I use it constantly, and even when I found out how to
configure Claws to do the "normal" thing and put deleted stuff in
trash, I kept it at its "buggy" default. :-)

If the Claws Crew ever does make moving to an unpulled body yield
a blank body, you could probably doubleclick the last email you want to
keep, so it stays persistent.

> 
> To be fair, I hardly ever delete emails, I am much more concerned
> about marking emails as read by accident.
> 
> Maybe marking somehow in the message pane, that this is currently NOT
> what is selected could help? This might also be easier to implement,
> in case cairo makes the - as I learned old behavior - too complicated,
> e.g. by changing the background color to a configurable value.

Ugh!

That strikes me as convoluted and surprising, but then again, that's
what documentation is for :-)

Thanks

SteveT

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