Re: Newbie questions/comments (Was: Re: [Evolution] Wish list/Todo ?)

[Oliver Sturm <o sturm manfred-dahlhoff de>]

Quoting Jeffrey Stedfast <fejj ximian com>:

> > Ok, I hear you. Still, I only want to have more control over the exact
> way
> > my signature is formatted in the message, not leave out the sequence
> > altogether. What's wrong with letting the user decide?
>
> because users don't know better. If you left it up to the user to start
> his signature file with "-- ", it would never happen and would piss a
> lot of people off. The standard rule of programming is "don't let your
> users do the Wrong Thing (tm)"

Sounds a lot like Bill speak to me. What about having a look (parse) at
the signature file and insert a "-- " at the top if there's none yet in the
file? That would serve my purposes and yours, it would seem.

> that's exactly what we've done. I think you'll find most other
> standards-aware mailers will do the same thing.

Well. I haven't counted, but my personal preference has been the same
for a long time, so I know that most provided me an option somehow
to do what I wanted. After all, it's not breaking the standard I'm after.

> you can drag the preview pane separator to the bottom of the screen. You
> can't expect much better than that for mouse control.

Have you seen the Netscape splitter? Or there could easily be a small button
somewhere that pops the splitter down to the bottom and back again.


Oliver Sturm <O Sturm Manfred-Dahlhoff de>

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