Re[3]: Orange folders color

[Thomas Fernandez]

Hi Claude,

on Friday, October 01, 1999, 1:54:21 AM, Claude wrote:


AM>> Maybe you need a color codes for messages intended for reading but not
AM>> just yet and one could then add a switch in the context menus.

C> The colors would work like that:
C> 1- If there is at least a "new" post in the folder: red. end.
C> 2- If there is at least a "seen" post in the folder: orange. end.
C> 3- brown. end.

AM>> Your proposal is more likely to cause confusion for others. It should be
AM>> a fully manual marker because of the dilemma with what exactly a session
AM>> is.

I think the definition "have opened that folder already" makes sense.

OTOH, I also like Syafril's idea that you can manually "Park"
messages - but I would distinguish between "really parked" messages
and mesages that I will have to reply to later. Thus, messages marked
"unread". That would be an idea different from Claude's as it would be
manual and not automatic, but it would be adding one flag nonetheless.

C> For people who has no interest in this kind of color management, just
C> act like if orange and red were the same color, and there will be
C> exactly no change for them :)

Agree; but I want the bat to fly only when the messages are "new". :-)

C> About the use of priority level subfolders, it will change my folders
C> window to a gas factory,

Nice French idiom (I guess); what does this mean?

C> and make me spend lots of time managing this
C> by hand. Lots of time spent just for the *non-urgent* posts, which is
C> a strange way to manage the priorities ;)

Guess you're right here. But the manual solution would still come in
handy for me. In my business, there is no such thing as a message that
is not urgent. I reply to messages by time zone; Japan/Australia
first, and then I move my way West bound through Asia, Europe, and
finally the Americas. So any message from Brazil I receive in the
morning doesn't need attention until afternoon, whereas I have to
reply to Australia or NZ right away, as they are two/three hours ahead
of me (I'm in Taiwan). Therefore, some kind of mark for later reply
would come in handy, even if manual.

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Re[3]: Orange folders color

[Wolfgang Kynast]

Hi,

...
C> "Read" is a post you've opened at least the time you've defined to
C> change it from "unread" to "read". No change.

C> "Seen" is a post you have not read, but which is in a folder you've
C> opened at least the time you would define, if my wish is agreed. This
C> means that you know this post is here, but you want to read it later.

C> "New" is a post which is in a folder you've not opened since this post
C> has been downloaded. (May be the definition for "session"?)

C> The colors would work like that:
C> 1- If there is at least a "new" post in the folder: red. end.
C> 2- If there is at least a "seen" post in the folder: orange. end.
C> 3- brown. end.

That seems to make sense. I support this proposal.

Regards,
Wolfgang

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Re[3]: Orange folders color

[Claude]

Hi, all,
On 30/09/1999, at 19:18,
Harold Harmon (mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED])
riding a tall black horse, shouted to the warriors:


HH> Hi all.. new to the list.
Welcome :)

HH> Perhaps a feature similar to Eudora's Labels would assist here. I'm
HH> not sure how you could set the filters to differentiate between "New
HH> Messages" and "Unread" messages, but the labels feature would at least
HH> allow color coding. I realize the Eudora's Labels do not change the
HH> folder color, but this feature could be included in the code so that
HH> you have the option of color coding a message or an a folder.

I'm not sure to really understand the Eudora feature :(

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Re[3]: Orange folders color

[Claude]

Hi, all,
On 30/09/1999, at 14:43,
Oleg Zalyalov (mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED])
went and see the gods, and told them:

Orange folders color 

OZ> Hello, the Bat! list recipients,

OZ> Thursday, September 30, 1999, Thomas Fernandez wrote about
OZ> Orange folders color:

C>>> What I would like is to have a color (may be orange) to tell "unread
C>>> posts" and to keep red for "new posts".

TF>> While I don't care too much about colours, I do agree that a
TF>> difference between "new" and "unread" messages should be made. For
TF>> example, the Bat should "fly" only when there is a real new message.

OZ> What  the  difference  between  'new'  and  'unread'?  How  TB! should
OZ> distinguish between them?

When a message is download, it is a new message: red folder.

When I open the folder and decide to keep it for further reading, and
close the folder, it is always unread, but it is no more a new
message: orange (for example) folder.

When I connect (in this idea) I may have reds, orange and brown
folders. I there is a new message in any folder, it becomes (or
remains) red.

So, seeing the colors, I can do the difference between an orange
folder, in which I've decided to keep non-urgent posts, and a red
folder, which I'm going to open to see the names and subjects, and
decide to read (brown folder if I read everything, like now), to kill,
or to keep unread (orange folder).


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Re[3]: Orange folders color

[Alex Sanyukovitch]

Hello Oleg,

Thursday, September 30, 1999, 3:43:08 PM, you wrote:


OZ> What  the  difference  between  'new'  and  'unread'?  How  TB! should
OZ> distinguish between them?

After getting of mail  all received messages become "new".
After  next session all unread messages from previous session still be
"unread", but "new" will be only messages, received in this session.

Got it? ;-))



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