[horde] [imp] default reply behavior in dimp/imp

[Brent]

Quoting Michael M Slusarz <slusarz at horde.org>:

> Quoting Brent <impuser at bitrealm.com>:
>
>> Quoting Michael M Slusarz <slusarz at horde.org>:
>>
>>> Quoting Simon Brereton <simon.brereton at buongiorno.com>:
>>>
>>>> I couldn't agree more.  I'm not sure that I personally care one  
>>>> way or the other.  But I know users care a great deal (there's a  
>>>> Chief Exec in the UK at the moment getting roasted because of an  
>>>> email he replied-to-all when he wanted to forward it and he's  
>>>> using the ridiculous defence that his account was hacked).  Not  
>>>> that this would have prevented his stupidity.  But as an admin,  
>>>> I'd like to be able to go into the configuration and set the  
>>>> default behaviour.  I use IMP, Gnome, Gmail, Outlook,  Evolution  
>>>> and a couple of mobile clients all day long and the two I find  
>>>> most annoying are the ones with this behaviour.   
>>>> Programmatically, it isn't difficult, and if I had the skills,  
>>>> I'd patch it myself.  If the Horde team aren't willing to  
>>>> compromise their principles, I can live with that - I just hope  
>>>> someone can provide a patch.  But ultimately, I'd like to see it  
>>>> as a configuration option.
>>>
>>> As mentioned before, this is *not* something that can (or will) be  
>>> a configuration option.  A blanket approach locking the reply  
>>> button into the wrong behavior (e.g. Reply to Sender for a message  
>>> with multiple recipients) is simply not acceptable.
>>>
>>> michael
>>
>> Zowie.  The reply button is currently locked.  In your opinion, it  
>> is locked into the correct behavior, other people feel it is locked  
>> into the wrong behavior.  So, we are at an impasse.  Because of the  
>> belief in how the button should behave, it would seem that the  
>> button should be customizable with the default being "Reply to  
>> All".  As the developers seem unwilling to change the behaviour of  
>> the button, perhaps just changing the text to "Reply To ..." would  
>> probably work for everybody as it would hopefully make people THINK  
>> (if even for a second) about what the button is about to do?
>
> It's not "locked".  Anybody can go into the source code and change  
> it as they please.  Can't do that in Outlook.  Can't do that in  
> Gmail (not that it matters, but for the record Gmail only has A  
> SINGLE REPLY BUTTON, albeit in a horrible location).  Maybe you can  
> do it in thunderbird, but not easy.

Gmail has only a single button, and it defaults to "Reply to Sender", FYI.


brent