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

[Jan Schneider]

Zitat von Michael M Slusarz <slusarz at horde.org>:

> 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

Huh funny. :) A good example of how you think something would work,  
might be completely different from how it's actually going to work.

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