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List:       kmail-devel
Subject:    Re: [PATCH] a bit of filter dialog cleanup and extension - tested!(was: untested)
From:       Don Sanders <sanders () kde ! org>
Date:       2001-04-08 14:28:51
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On Sunday 08 April 2001 09:53, Michael Häckel wrote:
> On Saturday,  7. April 2001 21:49, Marc Mutz wrote:
> > > And the name of a filter rule can now be edited. I still don't see a
> > > real purpose of this feature.
> >
> > Well, I have quite a few rules in my netscape filter dialog and I
> > personally like to name them after the ml or the person they filter on.
>
> At least I think, that the automatic naming does the job very well and I
> consider it unneccessary time wasting, if I have to invent a name for every
> filter rule now, only because a few users absulutely want their own names.
> And I have a lot of filter rules. Only because Netscape allows naming of
> filter rules is for me no argument, that this feature is also required in
> KMail. If you really want to allow changing the name, then the automatic
> naming should still work, as long the user does not change the name
> manually. Also I think, I'm not the only one with this opinion on this
> list, as this issue was discussed some months ago.

I agree with Michael here. As I pretty much always do (if I don't say 
anything then it can be assumed I agree with Michael by default).

The earlier filter dialog suggestions made were very good though.

...

> And as you mention IMAP, it has already arrived in CVS and there is no
> backwards incompatible change. Not even a single new menu item was invented
> for that. Users that don't use IMAP only see a new third option in the
> account configuration which leads to a new dialog.

Wow, when I think about that it's quite incredible really, fantastic :-)

Don.
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