| Summary: | a "quick answer" box for KMail | ||
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| Product: | [Unmaintained] kmail | Reporter: | Séverin Lemaignan <skadge> |
| Component: | general | Assignee: | kdepim bugs <kdepim-bugs> |
| Status: | RESOLVED DUPLICATE | ||
| Severity: | wishlist | ||
| Priority: | NOR | ||
| Version First Reported In: | unspecified | ||
| Target Milestone: | --- | ||
| Platform: | Ubuntu | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
| Latest Commit: | Version Fixed In: | ||
| Sentry Crash Report: | |||
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Description
Séverin Lemaignan
2006-02-01 18:00:59 UTC
Isn't clicking on the reply button enough one click? Go, be brave, enable it in your toolbar. Oh I forgot - you have to do another click when you want to send the mail. Sorry, that's silly. But nonetheless: How does it look like in Thunderbird and GMail? You seem to use them so why don't you provide a link to a screenshot? A Quick answer box is a good usability improvement. 2 clicks (far from the reading/writing zone) + a new window which opens, is too much when you have a lot of mails which only need one or two lines of answer. And...really ? you're a developper of a mail client (or at least interested in), and you never had a look to other pieces of software like Thunderbird or GMail ?? I'm a bit surprised :-/ > A Quick answer box is a good usability improvement. 2 clicks (far
> from the reading/writing zone) + a new window which opens, is too much
> when you have a lot of mails which only need one or two lines of answer.
<nitpick> The window is one key-stroke away. You can decide to reply to the
author, to a list, to all recipients without a bunch of links. You can send
by another shortcut (usually Ctrl-Enter). </nitpick>
I really doubt that you're quicker with GMail.
Thanks for the tip, I'll start use it, but I'm not sure every "common" user is familiar with keyboard shortcuts... And, yes, personnaly, I find it's easier in GMail... :) the answer box is unobstrusive if you don't want to answer, it opens *as soon as* you click it if you want to answer, and you can start writing. You choose if it's a reply, a reply-to-all, a forward,... throught tabs: it's intuitive and very quick. You can concentrate on your ideas, not on the interface. |