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List:       kmail-devel
Subject:    Re: "Reply" button functionality in KMail (especially with mailing
From:       David Faure <dfaure () kdab ! net>
Date:       2007-11-23 9:35:16
Message-ID: 200711231035.17681.dfaure () kdab ! net
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On Thursday 22 November 2007, Ingo Klöcker wrote:
> On Wednesday 21 November 2007, Matthew Blissett wrote:
> > Hi
> >
> > I'd like to share some thoughts on how KMail should behave when
> > replying to messages.  This was discussed before (ages ago) so I
> > apologise for bringing it up again, but I don't think the current
> > behaviour is optimal.
> >
> > At the moment there's the "Folder -> Mailing list management ->
> > Folder holds a mailing list" setting (on or off), and also four Reply
> > buttons: - Reply;
> > - Reply to all;
> > - Reply to list;
> > - Reply to author.
> >
> > Currently, if the folder-holds-mailing-list setting is off and the
> > user presses "Reply" to a message from a mailing list, then the reply
> > goes to the whole list (by extracting the List-Post message header). 
> > This seems dangerous to me -- I expect the "Reply" button to go to
> > the author of the message in most cases.
> >
> > I think this behaviour would be better:
> >
> > "Reply" button
> >   If "Folder holds a mailing list" is ticked for this folder
> >     - the same as "Reply to List" button
> >   Otherwise
> >     - the same as "Reply to Author" button
> 
> I don't think this behavior is better than the current behavior. If 
> anything then I'd change "Reply" to always do a reply to the 
> Mail-Reply-To/Reply-To/From address.

Hmm, so after 8 years of pressing 'r' to reply on kde lists, it would suddenly
not reply to the list (except on those lists that mangle Reply-To)?
That would be pretty unexpected and confusing.

At least if it depends on "Folder holds a mailing list" (which is not in the RMB for folders
so it's pretty hard to find BTW), it will mean a lot of checkbox-clicking after upgrading,
but at least one will be able to set up kmail so that 'r' still replies to the list (whatever
the list configuration is). Yes, I do want to reply on the list, 99.9999% of the time.
When I want to mail a personal reply I just do Shift+A, that's 0.0001% of the time...

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David Faure, faure@kde.org, dfaure@klaralvdalens-datakonsult.se
KDE/KOffice developer, Qt consultancy projects
Klarälvdalens Datakonsult AB, Platform-independent software solutions
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