From kmail-devel Wed Mar 09 07:58:47 2005 From: "Malte S. Stretz" Date: Wed, 09 Mar 2005 07:58:47 +0000 To: kmail-devel Subject: Why was the folder Properties dialog split up in 1.8? Message-Id: <200503090858.51101 () malte ! stretz ! eu ! org> X-MARC-Message: https://marc.info/?l=kmail-devel&m=111035517606725 Moin, I just looked the third time for some functionality in the folder Properties which was moved somewhere else... the new split of the Properties dialog is pretty counter-intuitive. (It's in 1.8-rc1 but I guess there hasn't changed anything at this place.) Even though there's a tab view in the properties dialog, it now only contains the tab "General". To reach the expiry settings you now have to choose "Expire..." from the context menu. In the Folder menu, only the old "Expire" command which doesn't open the configuration dialog is available. On the contrary, the "Mailing List Management" I use pretty often is only available via the Folder menu. To me, both dialogs are part of the "configuration" of a folder and the first place I look for such a thing is the Properties dialog. (The same is actually true for the threading and HTML settings which IMO should be moved from the Folder menu to the Properties dialog, too.) I just noticed that there's an "Assign Shortcut" (why is that in the context menu but the Mailing List Management isn't?) -- IMO that one should be in the Properties dialog, too. Was there some good reason to split this dialog up that I miss? To summarize, I think all folder "settings" and handler belong to the Properties dialog, that would not only give the user one place to look for settings but also shrink the menus, especially the context menu. Cheers, Malte _______________________________________________ KMail developers mailing list KMail-devel@kde.org https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kmail-devel