Re: [Evolution] Reuse same window

[Stephen Witkop <switk yahoo com>]

I use the preview pane mostly so I didn't think about this too much at
first but after playing around with it a little I can see Zot's point
here. Netscape 4.7 reuses the same message window, while Mozilla and
Netscape 6 don't and I have to say that if I was going to use the
message window I would not want to have new ones popping up all over the
place. On the other hand it might be useful for some to be able to click
on a bunch of headers and have them all pop up in their own window and
go through them by reading through the stack of windows.

I can already see this being a  problem in my house if I try and move my
wife to evolution from netscape 4.7, she doesn't use the preview pane
and I know that it will drive her crazy if new windows keep popping up
and she constantly has to close them. She doesn't even get a lot of mail
but she still scans the headers and double clicks on the ones she wants
to read first. I never understood it because "I don't do it that way"
but I guess she's not the only one so maybe it's not her and I should
not be so quick to judge.

I would think about this one, if this is also the behavior of Outlook,
that means the largest user base out there, (Netscape 4 and Outlook)
expects this behavior and as with my wife, most people hate too much 
change.

Stephen

On Fri, 2001-09-21 at 12:28, Zot O'Connor wrote:
> You know the responses here are confusing.  I asked about a standard
> practice in all other mailers I have used, and I am told to change how
> I've used GUI mailers for 7 years...  It is standard window programming
> to reuse the same resources if possible. 
>
>
>
> On Thu, 2001-09-20 at 23:14, NotZed wrote:
>
> > > Simple, I have 24 mew message. 3 are important.  I click on the 3 I want
> > > immediately.
> >
> > But you can only read 1 at a time anyway.
>
> I mean I click on the messages as I go through them.  I often get 24-30
> messages at once and need to read the important ones first.
>
>
> > > > I'm sure most other people find it far more useful to be able to open up
> > > > multiple message windows (by double-clicking or whatever method) rather
> > > > than being forced to use one.
> > >
> > > I'd have to disagree.  This is the first mailer that I have ever tried
> > > that behaves this way.  Some mailers have an option, but all default to
> > > the reuse method.
> > >
> > > You can test this with Netscape or Outlook for example.
> >
> > So if you have your screen and windows big enough to read a message, and
> > click on the message list at the same time, why don you just make your 
> > window bigger?  It contains the same full message as the popup window.
>
> You are assuming alot here.  Most people have 14 inch monitors.  Having
> the pane preview in the same window means either a very small message,
> or a message list of 5-6 messages.  ON my workstation, I can tweak it,
> but on my laptop, or any of the other 3 monitors, it is not.
>
> Most people I watch checking email do this, this include Suits, techs,
> and non-techs.  My wife for instance is on several lists, and rather
> than learn to sort or filter, she scans the subjects (sometimes she get
> 90 messages at a mail check). She clicks on the ones she wants as she
> goes through the list.  Her monitor was not big enough to have the
> preview pane, so she double clicks on the message and pops the note up. 
> When I gave her a bigger monitor and showed her the preview pane, she
> complained she could not see enough subject lines.  
>
> Our Au Pair does the same in both Pegasus Mail, and Netscape..
>
> Again, I stunned that people do not see this as the norm for windowed
> messages (as opposed to the preview pane).  I mean even a cheeseball
> destroy window, create new window would work (I swear there was a
> version of netscape that did that).