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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: Abstracting the Linux Desktop from the File-system
From:       Thiago Macieira <thiagom () wanadoo ! fr>
Date:       2002-12-03 19:09:06
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Manuel Amador wrote:
>> Well, on the desktop, you'd have only "not important" files because the
>> important files start with a "." and, so, they are hidden. Except the
>> "Mail" folder. And that's why I'm also fighting to have it renamed
>> ".mail" by default.
>
>Which is a reasonable course of action, but a better one would be
>storing mail messages as single files (MH) by default, so users could
>see their subjects, double click them and have a mail reader window from
>their favorite MUA open.  Plus they woul be able to use standard file
>search tools to locate them, instead of getting an aberrant single file
>with tons of e-mail messages.

That means throwing away our compatibility with other mail readers, like 
Netscape/Mozilla, pine, elm, mutt, etc., that store their mailboxes in 
~/Mail. You're asking to sacrifice functionality.

Besides, I think the default folder format for KMail is Maildir, so newly 
created folders will have the one file-one e-mail paradigm. And users do know 
how to create folders, move e-mails and some even know how to set up filter 
rules.

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