[dev] [commits] Horde branch develop updated. ff8350869d97ecdf9876e57d427aa046682fe5c9

Luis Felipe Marzagao lfbm.andamentos at gmail.com
Thu Mar 15 00:10:38 UTC 2012


Em 12/03/12 05:59, Jan Schneider escreveu:
>
> Zitat von Michael M Slusarz <slusarz at horde.org>:
>
>>     Fix folder/mailbox usage
>>
>>     Folders = collection of mailboxes. Example: you don't subscribe to a
>>     folder - you subscribe to a mailbox. Keep subfolders usage - this is
>>     clearer to me than submailboxes (once you start talking about the 
>> child
>>     of a mailbox, this implies there is a collection of mailboxes 
>> anyway).
>>
>>     I've been trying to clean this up over the last few years, but a new
>>     major version is the appropriate place to do these big changes.
>>
>>     For now, keep the old preference names (e.g. sent_mail_folder) 
>> for ease
>>     in upgrading.
>
> This might be a difference in language terminology, so I'm just 
> commenting on the German side of things. But to me the difference 
> between mailbox and folder in natural language usage is: mailbox is 
> used for the whole account, folder for the mailbox in imap terms. That 
> technically incorrect, but it's what people actually use.
>
Same thing in pt_BR.
> Jan.
>
Luis Felipe


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