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

[Michael M Slusarz]

Quoting Michael J Rubinsky <mrubinsk at horde.org>:

> 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.

For the record: I implemented this because the feedback on this list  
several months ago was **exactly** the opposite.  See, e.g.:  
http://marc.info/?l=imp&m=134272876202981&w=2

And this *is* the way other mail applications work.  At least in  
Thunderbird and (I believe) Outlook.

michael

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Michael Slusarz [slusarz at horde.org]