[imp] Irritating remember-selection-feature in IMP 6

[Michael J Rubinsky]

Quoting Jan Schneider <jan at horde.org>:

> Hi,
>
> is this only me, or this new feature that remembers the selection  
> state of a mailbox rather irritating than helpful? I may be  
> completely off, that's why I'm asking here, where potentially more  
> end user feedback is expected than on the development list.
>
> I don't recall such behavior from any other application that I use.  
> Granted, I don't use many desktop applications anymore, but still.
>
> If I go to another mailbox, I'm done with the current mailbox, and  
> vice versa, so I rather expect the first mailbox in a clean state  
> when I return from the second mailbox. This expectation might be  
> different if we had mailboxes opened in tabs, which we don't.
>
> Though this could be considered a bug that needs fixing, I find it  
> especially annoying in a common use case of mine: when I start  
> reading through my daily mail, going through all the folders that my  
> mail is sorted into, I sometimes open a mail that's too long to be  
> read right now. Then I reset the seen flag before I go to another  
> folder. If I go back, that message is now still selected, marking it  
> as seen again.
>
> Again, this could be just my personal preference, and others might  
> welcome this new feature, so I'm looking for some feedback.


For me personally, I wouldn't go so far as to say it's irritating, but  
I agree that it is an undesirable feature. I expect the mailbox to be  
in a pristine state if I exit it and reenter it.

-- 
mike

The Horde Project (www.horde.org)
mrubinsk at horde.org
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