Re: [Evolution] Reply for list messages should go back to the list

[Kåre Fiedler Christiansen <fedora kaarefc dk>]

On Wed, 2010-07-14 at 14:27 -0400, Paul Smith wrote:

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> What I'd really like to see is a "reply publicly" operation, which is
> the standard one that is used by default (the standard key binding and
> the standard button), which by default "does the right thing" to create
> a public reply to the message, as best as can be discovered and
> interpreted by Evo based on RFC's, best practices, etc.  This "right
> thing" would change based on the message being read (e.g., based on
> List-Post headers).


I wholeheartedly agree with this suggestion! It's basically the same I
had in mind when I suggested the "magic reply" option.

I have seen a lot of emphasis on the knowledgeable user who want power
to reply exactly the way they want - I can understand! But for the
majority, you just want to hit reply and have evolution do The Right
Thing[TM].

I consider myself quite able to understand the different ways of
replying to e-mail, and yet I find myself often having to manually edit
the headers of a half-composed email, or discarding it and starting
anew, because I forgot to reply the right way. And 99.999% of the time
the "right way" described above fits my needs perfectly and the
remaining .001% of the time I would be vary conscious of selecting the
right option to reply.

It's like my digital camera. I understand the need to be able to set the
right exposure, focus distance, etc., but most of the time I simply want
to set it to "Auto" and not bother with the details.

> I'm also happy if there are alternatives for specific situations.
> Someone mentioned having a drop-down list off the reply to all button,
> like we do for forward, and actually I think that might be a good
> solution.  By default have the "reply publicly" button do the heuristic
> "reply to everyone" (I guess this would be more-or-less equivalent to
> the Ctrl-L operation above), then have some drop-down menu options for
> alternatives.

Again, I agree. I don't want to take away the power to select exactly
how to reply in specific instances.

> A preference that lets you select your preferred default "reply
> publicly" operation would be nice as well (I think we have something
> like that for forward).  The values could be "Best effort" (default),
> "All recipients", etc.

That might actually be complicating things a bit too much, though. But
if it was implemented, it could be that one option was to make it reply
_privately_. (In that case it's name couldn't be "Reply Publicly",
though).

If done, the pop-up (mentioned before) when replying to a list, could in
fact be a pop-up asking you how you want to reply, and an option to set
that as the default way to reply.

Best,
  KÃre