Kris Steinhoff wrote:
On Fri, 15 Aug 2008 18:57:00 -0400, Jim Pingle lists@pingle.org wrote:
Kris Steinhoff wrote:
When checking for new messages RoundCube displays a loading message. This feedback is useful when the user has click the "Check for new
message"
button, but it is also displayed when RoundCube automatically checks for new mail. I think RoundCube should only display the message when the user has manually initiated a check.
What do others think about this behavior?
This sounds like the perfect candidate for a user-configurable behavior, if people feel that strongly on both sides. :-)
Hi Jim,
You're right, that's why I asked.
When I have some time, I'll rewrite my patch to make it a user-configurable option (unless someone beats me to it).
If we can't find a conclusion then the default action is the add a user-configurable option. In general this isn't a bad thing but I'm a bit afraid of bloating the prefs panel which will then confuse the average user. Before adding an option and naming it, we should carefully think about these questions
- does the user understand what he/she is about to set here?
- would he/she mind if this option was not here?
- what preset/default would make sense?
The worst case is to have 280 options to set where 99% of the users will (naturally) capitulate and then leave them as set by default. Now we're back to (almost) no configuration but useful defaults.
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