On 2010-01-24, at 06:08 , Jeroen van der Ham wrote: > > I think you have to be very careful there. In another thread I > referenced to the fact that Thunderbird currently has an advanced > configuration editor where you can change almost *everything*. IMO that > is one of the things that is actually flawed in Thunderbird. > > I don't disagree that we should expose some settings in an "advanced" > preference pane, but I believe we should be hesitant to do so.
I guess that was my point: >> we should avoid justifying bad decisions with "we're power users, we can >> deal, configure the hell out of it, until it actually works" 1. Try not to have much options to begin with. 2. Have fairly reasonable defaults. 3. "We're powerusers" is not a get out of jail free card. For example, a lot of people want uber abstract everything is search dynamic mailboxes, myself included. A baseline all IMAP users have to deal with is folders. Then there's gmail. I would ship with a pretty standard folder source list. We'd also detect gmail and offer it a more gmaily experience. The getting rid of folders, everything-is-search fun is up to the user. Who knows how each of us want to split our mail anyway. I have some crazy ideas. Sure, a plugin could automate some of that. But the default thing that ships is, IMAP users get IMAP folders, Gmail users get whatever we can make that works for them. _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list List help: http://lists.ranchero.com/listinfo.cgi/email-init-ranchero.com
