From kmail-devel  Sat Mar 25 07:41:16 2000
From: Don Sanders <dsanders () cch ! com ! au>
Date: Sat, 25 Mar 2000 07:41:16 +0000
To: kmail-devel
Subject: Re: Attachments inline vs. widget
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Hmm, (not wanting to do any more work than I have to), you can kinda of get 
the same effect by hitting 'f' to forward the message, then a list of 
attachments that you can right click is presented.

Basically I figure than in my priority scheme this is of lower priority than 
the things already listed.

What would be nice if messages with attachments had a special icon.

Another thing your idea about changing from long folder/short folder by 
clicking on (part of) the 'Folders' title was damn good. It might be an idea 
to put a couple of icons on it, the other icon being for show/hide folder 
icons. (Which in my opinion is the proper way of hiding icons rather than 
scrolling the window you remarked was your current method of doing this).

I think I'll try to get rid of the useless 'Mail' entry that's just taking up 
space some time too. (There's a technical catch though).

BFN,
Don. 

On Sat, 25 Mar 2000, Rivyn (Casey Shobe) wrote:
> Recently I was reading a bug report for Balsa and happened to see this at
> the
>
> bottom:
> > By the way, what do you think guys about having, attachments showns as
> > icons in a separate widget, instead of having them inline, as it is now?
>
> Now, I know that Balsa is not Kmail, and Kmail is not Outlook, but I think
> that this is a question that needs to be brought up.  For those of you who
> have used a newer Outlook or Outlook Express, you may remember a little
> paperclip icon in the top right of the message window that you would click
> to popup a list of attachments and then would be able to right-click one
> and either open it or save it to disk.  Or you could click to open.
>
> Now I like inline attachments, and I do not think that we should lose them,
> however wouldn't it be nice to ALSO have this sort of widget or something
> like it?
>
> What are everyone's thoughts on this?
>
> Maybe a section in preferences:
>
> Attachment Style:
> 	(_) Inline only
> 	(x) Inline + Button
> 	(_) Button Only