Re: [Evolution] A few notes about the user interface

[George Farris <george gmsys com>]

On 02 Apr 2001 14:51:36 -0700, Richard Zach wrote:
> > o When forwarding a mail, it can either be forwarded as an attachment,
> > or as quoted text.  Both are usually considered fairly bad habits, in
> > particular forwarding as quoted (and indented) text leads to emails that
> > have more greater than symbols than actual text.  I'd like to at least
> > have this behaviour an option.
>
> http://bugzilla.ximian.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1387
>
> But on latest snapshots you can forward inline: Actions > Forward As...
>
> > This has been debated at length, months ago.  Forwarding as an
> > attachemnt is the correct way, and why it is the default behaviour, and
> > will not change.


What the hell.  This isn't supposed to be Microsoft you know.  We users
want a particular feature implemented, it's not a big deal to allow one
to choose the default behavior of the forward button.

It doesn't matter if it was debated to death, the "correct" thing to do
was give us a choice.

Thank you.