Re: Forwarding options

[Marco van Oostende <marco oostende nl>]

I always wondered why forwarding a message with attachment never included  
both the message -and- the attachments, as it does in most other mail apps I  
worked with, but I'm sure that is a result of a discussion from the past.  
However, this may be a good opportunity to reconsider? For myself, as happy  
end-user, would expect an option 'forward' (without) and 'forward with  
attachment'. Keybindings are again a problem, maybe use F and W resp.

Note there may also raise a confusion with the Ctrl-V for View Source instead  
of the Paste option used elsewhere (I know, not applicable here but still...)

Regs, Marco

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On 2003.09.24 16:39, Peter Bloomfield wrote:
> Barbara Pennacchi has raised some issues with forwarding:
> 
> http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=123018
> 
> One issue is that the ctrl+F binding to Edit => Find... takes precedence  
> over Message => Forward Inline..., so if that's your preferred way of  
> forwarding, you're out of luck.
> 
> Barbara suggests that `F' should be bound to a plain `Forward' item  
> (perhaps `Forward (default)'), which would take the same default action as  
> the toolbar button.  Other forwarding items, being used less frequently,  
> would have no keybinding.  The question is what other items to have, and  
> how to label them.  Some possibilities:
> 
> (1) Forward...            [F]
>    Forward (alternate)...
> 
> (2) Forward...            [F]
>    Forward Attached...
>    Forward Inline...
> 
> (3) Forward...            [F]
>    Forward [labeled as the alternate]...
> 
> where in (3) we change the second item's label on the fly to whichever is  
> not the default.
> 
> I find (1) and (2) possibly confusing, and (2) also adds another item to a  
> long menu, so I'm inclined towards (3). It's feasible (with a little  
> groping around), but are there HIG issues?
> 
> Comments or other suggestions?
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