[arachne] Re: [a4dos-list] Suggestions for insight.exe
- From: "L.D. Best" <l.d.best@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: arachne4dos@xxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 17 Mar 2004 06:45:20 -0500
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Greg,
1. I have to disagree. Archive is a button already there, and it is for
that purpose -- create an unsorted archive of messages you wish to keep.
MOVE is also there and IMNSHO MOVE should stay where it is ... many of us
(and I'm sure other people in the world) need to sort our messages by what
they are about, or who they are from. Having MOVE, having the 'sticky'
selected.dat so we can move messages easily in a single subject matter, is
a plus I would dearly hate to loose! Let's just leave that alone, OK?
2. The GUI used for viewing messages in the trash can is exactly the
same GUI as used for viewing ALL messages in folders; it has the MOVE
button, but doesn't NEED the ARCHIVE button ... you've already decided it
doesn't belong in the general catch-all-Archive folder. Stop and think
about it ... if you want to retrieve something from Trash, it must be
because you want to save it -- which requires Moving it to a specific
folder -- or you want to reply to it. The GUI is different from the
readmail GUI because it handles certain aspects of RESENDing mail that
don't get considered in other GUI.
You see, although the picture on the Trash Can is different from other
mail folders, the trash can is just one more sub-directory under MAIL, and
generally if people are looking at saved messages they want to do one of a
few things: Move it to a different folder; reply to it; forward it; trash
it. Thus there is a special GUI set up to work with files in 'folders'
...
Why handle RESEND differently? Well, many of us keep those folders so
the letter to the doctor which didn't get replied to can be resent, the
message to glennmcc that got chomped by Cisco and had really important
stuff with it so we saved it ... that needs to be resent, so the GUI
that reminds you in OUTBOX that 'when you resend a message, orginal
files shown should be added manually' is the same GUI that reminds you
of the same thing when reading TRASH or TWEAKS or SEXY_GRL.YEH messages
you've saved. <G>
We don't really want any more GUIs ... believe me!! The error which
occurs when you try to send trash to trash isn't fatal. It generally
causes me to use the "slap on forehead, curse myself out for being a
dummy ... drrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr george, can't send trash to trash twice"
response. And if you exit the message and check the trash can index,
you'll see the message DID get sent to the trash can <G> ... just not the
time you tried to send trash to the trash can.
Now, perhaps I read wrong or don't understand what you're really
proposing/asking for. But what I think you've said I cannot second you
on. Sorry ...
l.d.
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On Tue, 16 Mar 2004 18:56:03 -0500, Greg Mayman wrote:
> I know there is a team looking into needed corrections and
> upgrades of CORE.EXE, but is anyone looking into upgrades of
> INSIGHT.EXE?
> If they are, or if it is one of the items for the TO-DO list, I
> have a couple of suggestions regarding mail viewing:
> 1. The normal mail viewing screen should have the third button
> changed from (move to) "Archive" to (move to) the last folder
> selected under movemail1.dg1. The name of this folder is held
> in the MAIL subdirectory as SELECTED.DAT.
> 2. The mail viewing screen used for viewing mail in the TRASH
> folder seems to be a special one as it doesn't have the (move
> to) "Archive" button. But it does have the (move to) "Trash"
> button, which causes an error when clicked. My suggestion is
> that this button be re-allocated as (move to) the last folder
> selected under movemail1, as in suggestion (1) above.
> Proposed by: Greg Mayman
> Can we have a seconder please?
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