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List:       kde-usability
Subject:    Re: KMail annoyance
From:       Henrique Pinto <stampede () uai ! com ! br>
Date:       2003-12-12 20:30:10
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On Friday 12 December 2003 17:54, Casey Allen Shobe wrote:
> "The message you have composed seems to refer to an attached file but
> you have not attached anything.
> Do you want to attach a file to your message?"
>
> I see this message about 50% of time I try to send a message from KMail.
>  The only thing I've noticed that causes is it using the word 'patch'
> (god forbid) in an E-Mail, but there must be other keywords that trigger
> it as well.  Of course I get it when trying to send this message
> now...UUUGGGGHHHH.....
>
> It's BLOODY ANNOYING...and if my sister sends a message to her friend
> about a quilt they are working on, she shouldn't get a popup telling her
> she forgot to attach a file.  If I say 'did you try that patch?' or 'try
> this patch: http://...' or 'get your life patched together' or 'this
> patch of ground' or 'there was an ice patch on the road' or any
> variation of the other keywords which I'm apparently very very good at
> doing I shouldn't get this bloody annoying message.
>
> Not only that, but it has the following usability issues...
> I use Ctrl-Enter to send the message.  If I hold it down for too long,
> it brings up about 50 of those prompts, and the 'enter' apparently also
> automatically clicks the default button.
>
> These usability issues extend outside of this problem, so please bear
> them in mind in future work:
> 1. One should not be able to open more than 1 copy of the exact same
> dialog. 2. Ctrl-Enter should not do the same thing as Enter (hitting the
> default button).  Instead it should do nothing in this case.
> 3. Stupid default action.
>
> Can this "feature" of horror please be removed and sacraficed to the
> porcelain god?

Please don't remove it! It's one of the best features of KMail for me, and 
probably for many others. If you don't like it, disable it in the KMail 
Configuration Dialog. Actually, it may make sense to have that feature 
disabled as default (I'm CC-ing the KMail list), as that feature may be 
annoying for most users.

-- 
	Henrique Pinto
	stampede@uai.com.br
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