On Fri, 12 Mar 2010 11:39:42 -0600, Nick Sabalausky <a...@a.a> wrote:
"Andrei Alexandrescu" <seewebsiteforem...@erdani.org> wrote in message
news:hndpev$2om...@digitalmars.com...
Step 2 is another huge reason of annoyance with both Thunderbird and
Opera. As far as I can tell, if they are downloading headers in the
background, user actions have bottom priority. I want to see a
message, I
click, and then I wait and wait and wait. It's like a worker who can't
tend to an urgent task because of doing drawer cleanup! The right
behavior
is to pause everything that's going on if that would slow down the user.
That sort of thing is a big pet peeve for me too (Maybe I'm just being
pessemistic, but it seems to be all too common lately). It's definitely a
dominant charactaristic of Mozilla in general though, not just
Thunderbird.
Literally at least half the time I use FireFox, there will be some point
where I'll have something loading in one tab, so I'll try to switch to
another tab so I can do something useful while I'm waiting, but then it
won't switch tabs (or have any responsiveness at all, for that matter)
until
the first tab finishes loading. *Then* it'll switch tabs even though by
then
it's become pointless.
To add insult to injury, when you send an email using Thunderbird on
Ubuntu, while the email is being sent, there are two windows in your face
that you don't care about: the message you just wrote, and the
"Sending..." window on top of it. Of course you'd want to move on with
your life instead of watching your message being packaged and sent, but
that's difficult with Thunderbird. So what you need to do is Alt-Tab twice
and you can return to Thunderbird's main window and continue reading your
email.
I read and write so much email everyday, for me the process of reading,
replying, and archiving email must be entirely streamlined. For archiving
I found the Nostalgy extension; I press Shift-A and the message goes to an
archiving folder. I need to synchronously wait for the message to go away,
but I can put up with that. I couldn't find a good extension "minimize the
useless windows while sending". Even worse, I tried to make the point on a
Thunderbird forum and a thundermoron brushed that off as a non-issue and
suggested the Alt-Tab solution.
Anyhow, this version 3 takes serious steps towards making the streamlining
of the read/reply/archive process more difficult. But then this is the
second message I'm writing using Opera, and I was glad to see that the
first one disappeared off the screen as soon as I pressed Ctrl-Enter.
Andrei
