Joel Clermont wrote:

The biggest problem people moan about is multi-select. It is not

intuitive to use a key modifier like Shift or Control to select multiple

messages.

What is not intuitive in this behavior? All apps behave like this.

In addition, in IE7 when you control-click it opens the

message in another tab, so if you control-click 10 messages to delete

them, you now also have 10 tabs to close.

This is a problem currently not solved because IE7 does not allow the

javascript to cancel the event. And here we have a conflict between two

different points of view: some people want to have the message subject as

real link in order to open the message in a new tab by ctrl-clicking it and

others want to select multiple messages using ctrl-click.

Is there something I am missing on this problem? Is there a setting

where I can enable an old school checkbox column for people to use in

multi-select?

We don't have checkboxes and there won't be any checkboxes at all. And

please don't start yet another endless discussion about this!

The only solution I see is to tell the users that they should not click the

message subject (but another col or whitespace) when selecting multiple

messages with ctrl.

~Thomas