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List:       kmail-devel
Subject:    Why was the folder Properties dialog split up in 1.8?
From:       "Malte S. Stretz" <msquadrat.nospamplease () gmx ! net>
Date:       2005-03-09 7:58:47
Message-ID: 200503090858.51101 () malte ! stretz ! eu ! org
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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
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