[imp] Signature

[Luis Felipe Marzagao]

Em 21/01/2013 16:42, azurIt escreveu:
>> Od: "Michael M Slusarz" <slusarz at horde.org>
>> Komu: <imp at lists.horde.org>
>> Dátum: 21.01.2013 19:29
>> Predmet: Re: [imp] Signature
>>
>> Quoting azurIt <azurit at pobox.sk>:
>>
>>>> Od: "Jan Schneider" <jan at horde.org>
>>>> Komu: <imp at lists.horde.org>
>>>> Dátum: 21.01.2013 09:48
>>>> Predmet: Re: [imp] Signature
>>>>
>>>> Zitat von azurIt <azurit at pobox.sk>:
>>>>
>>>>> Hi,
>>>>>
>>>>> ia have two questions:
>>>>>
>>>>> 1.) Is it possible to add signature right after the _my_ text in
>>>>> IMP6 when replying to message? Standard behavior is to add it to the
>>>>> end of message (so after the quoted text).
>>>>> 2.) Is it possible to display signature in compose screen? Like in IMP5.
>>>>>
>>>>> thnx.
>>>>>
>>>>> azur
>>>> This has been discussed and asked a dozen times already. Please use
>>>> search engines and mailing list archives.
>>>
>>> What about to make a special mark like <%
>>> your_signature_will_be_placed_here %> which will appear in
>>> composition window and will be replaced by signature after sending
>>> an e-mail?
>> Absolutely not.
>>
>> As Jan says, this has been discussed multiple times before.  *Very*
>> briefly: putting the signature ANYWHERE other than as the last data in
>> the message makes absolutely no sense and leads to producing
>> completely unreadable message text.  Which is one of MULTIPLE reasons
>
> Well, this is your opinion and other people (including me) may not agree with it. I'm not going to argue with you and Jan but current signature behavior is extremely non-standard (have you ever seen any other e-mail client which was acting like this?) and lot's of our customers are very confused.
>
> azur

Hello, Azur:

Yes, a lot of people were unhappy about this (check imp mail list 
archives). As an alternative, I have proposed at least just the 
*displaying* of the signature (i. e., in another frame or something like 
that), which does not seem a hard task to accomplish (I mean, pull the 
signature text from db backend when selecting the identity in the 
compose window), specially because imp, like horde in general, is 
*extremely* well designed. But since even that idea was rejected, if you 
want this behavior, you will have to do it your self (and this 
contribuition would be appreciated) or sponsor it (i don´t know how 
sponsoring would work or cost).

I also think wrinting a msg and not seeing what will be the final text 
is really confusing and nonintuitive, mainly for real life/regular 
users, but since this is open source software, at least you can alter 
the code. Imagine if it were proprietary/closed software.

Luis Felipe