And there are more things... The GUI is somehow clumsy.
The popups and menus are not well organiced (harmless functions as neighbours of dangerous funktions - identical looking menu entrys trigger different events, like the pgp entries). It is possible to define shortcuts, but not for all events (it is still not possible to cut/copy/paste into the subject/address/CC/BCC... line of the editor windows). The same functions can have different shortcuts over different windows (in a well designed GUI it is important, to have a single shortcut allways to trigger the same function!). We have this rather interesting to use MicroEd editor or the totally dumb Windows editor controll. Typing text is one of the essentials of an email software. Why isn't there a text only editor that could be customiced - lets say like TextPad? The thread handling... Ok, only the first column of the message list can show the threading crosses. To save space, the first line has to be the subject. But that removes every possiblitity to easily distinguish between an unread mail and and a tread, that contains unread mail. Why is there no option, to select a text style for mails, that have unread submails? When changing the columsettings (view mode) in the message list by dragging arround some of the columns, the results are applied the current view mode. The settings should only be added to the current view mode, if the user commands tze application to do so. As long as he is not doing this, they have to remain as some kind of temporal setting. to be continiued ... Most of these should be simple to correct. But they would have a huge impact on the usebility. I don't understand, why the developers of The Bat so easliy turn away new customers. -- With best regards Lars Sölter mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] The Bat! Version 2.13 "Lucky" Beta/5 Windows 2000 / Service Pack 4 (Build 2195) ________________________________________________________ http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html
