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List:       kmail-devel
Subject:    Re: Patch for setting mails as read
From:       Marc Mutz <Marc.Mutz () uni-bielefeld ! de>
Date:       2001-12-31 22:41:28
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On Monday 31 December 2001 20:00, Waldo Bastian wrote:
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> Not in context menus. By defintion, a context menu offers functions
> that are relevant in the given context. As such the menu will depend
> on the context and might change when the context changes.
<snip>

Except that you confuse the user when the context menu suddenly has more 
or less stuff in it than a few seconds ago. Thus you can't rely on "the 
third action when in the foo context menu is bar" anymore, forcing you 
to re-read the action labels over and over again (or re-digest the 
icons).

Marc

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