Re: [Evolution-hackers] "Edit As New Message"

[JP Rosevear <jpr novell com>]

On Tue, 2004-09-14 at 17:29 +0800, Not Zed wrote:
> On Mon, 2004-09-13 at 16:12 -0400, JP Rosevear wrote: 
> > On Mon, 2004-09-13 at 15:33 -0400, Jeffrey Stedfast wrote:
> > > On Mon, 2004-09-13 at 14:57 -0400, William Jon McCann wrote:
> > > > Jeffrey Stedfast wrote:
> > > > > the rationale is:
> > > > > 
> > > > > - if it's not sent by you, then you shouldn't be editing it
> > > > 
> > > > What is your reasoning?
> > > 
> > > do you edit magazine articles you get in the mail? no.
> > > 
> > > if you didn't write it, it's not yours to edit.
> > 
> > If we care that much about that, why do we allow any email to be dragged
> > to the Drafts folder?  
> > 
> > I think this is really a case of Edit as New Message outside the sent
> > folder not being the usual use case so we never coded it.  Whether or
> > not its a usuability issue to allow this, I leave for others to decide.
> The code specifically disables the feature.  It takes a non-trivial
> amount of code.
> 
> Others, who?

Product design or gnome ui team.  Fejj's second argument about the
composer not being able to handle every type of mime constructed message
is probably more relevant than the who should be editing who's message
part of this thread any how.

Can we make this optional via an eplugin somehow?

-JP
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JP Rosevear <jpr novell com>
Novell, Inc.