Some suggestions and bugs for Balsa 1.1.5

[Philip Van Hoof <freax pandora be>]

I have been using balsa for some months now and I noticed some bugs,
so I finally decided to post them on this list :). Ps. Most of these
are personal preferences, so when I say "should" or "could" it doesnt
mean "have to" :) sorry if my English is not very clear/clean :)

Suggestions/bugs

* In Balsa 1.1.5 , the Return-Path in the little box that appears when "Selected
headers" is selected in the "View" popup menu is incorrect. I have this string at 
the "Selected headers" option in the preferences of display : 
"from to date cc subject return-path". The Return-Path which it displays is the
"From" header I think. However, when I use "reply" then it uses the correct 
E-Mail adress to send the reply to.

* There is also no option in the "New Message" box to Reflow only the selected
text, or to wrap only the selected text. This way, also my signature gets
reflowed.. and say that I have a nice ascii art, it gets screwed of course.. :o)

* Perhaps a way to say that something is an hard return. So that when the
wrapping function goes over my message, that it wont "wrap" on that space.
Example when I typed a value like : 12 232 223 EURO at the end of a line,
it doesn't wrap like 

blabla blabla blabla blabla blabla blabla blabla blabla blabla blabla 12
232 223 EURO

or

blabla blabla blabla blabla blabla blabla blabla blabla blabla 12 232 223 
EURO

In most word processors they use ctrl+space for this I think. It's not
nessesairy to send a special byte to the other side since that would
brake all mail-standards of course.. only the balsa editor should then
remember where the hardreturns are?!

* When I select a message at the bottom of the list in the mailbox tabs
then the list should move-up a little bit so that I can select the next
message more easily. Now I have to start scrolling for that. (if there
are a lot messages in my mailfile ofcourse). Afaik the netscape-communicator
mail program does this (mozilla to).

* collapsing/uncollapsing and moving through the list using the arrow 
keys could be made a little bit better to.

* Since Balsa and Pan are used in combination by a lot users (I think),
it would be nice if some typical pan things and some typical balsa
things would be the same in both programs. Ok, they both use gnome
so a lot is already in common, but for example url recognition in
pan is different then in balsa last time I checked.. Complete 
integration of both programs is "NOT" a good idea, the created thing
would be called bloatware in notime... but that doesn't mean that
the way of working with both programs can't be the same at some points.

btw, I like Balsa 1.1.5 :) very good mailclient since it works with
gtkhtml :)


My two cents, please don't start flaming on these suggestions
they are just suggestions anyway .. heh :)


-- 
Philip van Hoof aka freax (http://www.freax.eu.org) 
irc: irc.openprojects.net mailto:freax @ pandora.be