[imp] 3 things

[Keith A. Chayer]

Quoting Scott Martin <martin@math.ohiou.edu>:

> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Chuck Hagenbuch" <chuck@horde.org>
> To: <imp@lists.horde.org>
> Sent: Monday, November 06, 2000 2:31 PM
> Subject: Re: [imp] 3 things
> 
> 
> > Hrm. I'll take opinions here. I like the behavior; it's more like a
> real
> > application; it "feels" better to me. But if it really annoys a lot
> of
> people,
> > we can change it, or maybe try and find a way to do it only if we
> have
> focus in
> > that window?
> 
> I think it's great. Makes it that much simpler to get started. I vote
> not to
> change it. But I'm also not one of the people who's usually doing other
> things while I'm using IMP.

Usually when I go to read my mail, I'm ready to read my mail.  But sometimes I 
just want to load webmail and get to it when I'm done with something else.  
Personally (and this isn't IMP's fault, obviously), I think it's stupid for 
something to just jump to the front like it's the most important thing you 
should look at.  I like the idea of the focus being in that field so I don't 
have to click anything to start typing (more "applicationy", as Chuck says), but 
not at the expense of the whole window jumping to the foreground.  (hotmail does 
this no matter WHAT you click on!)  Honestly, I don't know whether the behaviour 
only occurs under Windoze though.

I see the argument--the simplicity is a lot greater advantage than the advantage 
gained from the apparently-few people that don't do things the normal way.  
Though the converse of that is if something behaves *incorrectly* (most other 
applications don't do this, though it may technically be correct for browsers 
too, grr...), that may be enough reason not to have it there.

I'll just disable this in my local install if necessary then. :-)

..Keith

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