Hi Gerald, On Sun, 26 Mar 2006 02:55:39 -0600 (Central Standard Time) "Gerald V. Livingston II" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > If you have a folder with > 1 unread msg in it, click it in the folder > > list. After sorting the msg table is displayed. Click the "Select next > > unread message" icon. The second unread msg will be displayed instead of > > the first. > > I guess the default is set to do the same thing my settings do. When you > open the folder it "goes to", but does not display (select), the first > unread message. It is not selected but the message index pointer indicates > it as the CURRENT message. When you click the "Next Unread" button it goes > to the NEXT unread message and SELECTS it and displays it when it is > selected.
In faxt, I have discovered it is even worse by closer examination. When you click a folder in the list, it updates the message table but the first unread message is in fact one one entry further "down" than the last msg in the table so it doesn't display unless you hit the down arrow in the msg table scrollbar for instance. The only time this doesnt seem to be the caser is the obvious case where there are less messages than the default number of entries in your message table. On my system 10 message details display. > > As a stopgap, simply click on the highlighted message (first unread) when > the message table shows up to cause it to be SELECTED and displayed, and > 'read'. Or, change your folder view settings to: > > 1) return to last selected message (so the first unread is not the one > highlighted) or > > 2) click the "select initial message" so when the first message is > high;ighted it is also selected, displayed, and marked as read. > > The "Next Unread" icon function should probably actually be changed to > select the FIRST unread message in a folder, or have a config option Yes, I agree. What exacerbates it is that the default folder list / msg list highlight colour is a beige on a white background which does not appear to be configurable within Mahogany prefs (presumeably inherited from the Win XP default scheme). I think for my sanity / eyes I need it to be the blue colour when selected and not selected. This might cause some peoples sensibilities re where the focus is to be be worried but sometimes Mahogany does strange focus behaviours anyway (presumeably platform related). Mahogany might look "prettier" under Windows but only slightly more so to me than running under Linux / Gnome. Running under KDE it is just plain ugly :-( (Beauty in the beholders eye etc ;-) ) > available to switch it between the two functions (first unread mode or next > unread mode) depending on users desire. It would actually annoy me if I > were to use it and it selected the first unread message in a folder. I > leave messages unread if I don't have time to answer them right away. The > only toolbar icons I use are DELETE, COMPOSE, REPLY, and EXIT. I tend to > use keyboard shortcuts (CTRL-U - next unread) or direct clicks in the > message list pane. > > The only "button" I'd like to see changed is the "Check Mail" button. I use > an IMAP message store and "Check Mail", doesn't. I have to select the INBOX > and use the "Update Subtree" function under the "F"older menu to update the > new message status of all the folders in my tree. So, checking for new mail > is either three clicks or one click and a double keystroke (ALT-F, T). Yes, I have two imap servers only, so I do similar using "all folders" at the top of the folder tree. MarkL ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by xPML, a groundbreaking scripting language that extends applications into web and mobile media. Attend the live webcast and join the prime developer group breaking into this new coding territory! http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=110944&bid=241720&dat=121642 _______________________________________________ Mahogany-Developers mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/mahogany-developers
