Re: [kde] [KMail] More folders than just "Local folders"

Anne Wilson wrote:
On Sunday 08 March 2009 22:26:45 Nikos Chantziaras wrote:
Because that way it's easier to work with.

As always, the choice that KDE offers is your friend.
I don't even know how to
achieve the layout you proposed in the first place.

If you want to do it we can help.

Well, go ahead.


In Thunderbird, I
simply create my account and everything is placed in it's own top-level
group.

Yes, that's the way T'bird does it - and has done since the early Netscape
days. Personally I don't like it, but as I said before, choice is what
matters.

No, it doesn't do it by default. By default Thunderbird behaves like
KMail. All goes into "Local Folders->Inbox/Drafts/Trash/etc". But when
you create an account, there's a nice little checkbox to enable separate
folders. KMail doesn't have this nice little checkbox ;)


KMail is really trying hard to make me *not* use it.

Rubbish. You have choices. You can use T'bird with default settings, but it
doesn't have some of the tools that I most appreciate in KMail, such as folder
options for controlling mailing list messages, automatic expiry set on a
folder-by-folder basis, the ability to set protection flags (and in the latest
version the ability to add tags).

TB has all those. I don't use them though. I only ever used a single
filter. Everything else was working out of the box for what I need.

And about this "choice" thing: you shouldn't tell your users about
"choice", or else you'll never gonna increase your user base.


However, if iyou want to use KMail, we can give you a loose approximation of
the layout you prefer and you keep the advantages of the application. As
always, the choice is yours.

That's a flawed point of view. Not making KMail better because users
can simply use a better alternative does not help anyone, and especially
not KMail's popularity. I also have the choice to go Gnome. Or
Windows. Or OS X. Is that "choice?" I say no, it isn't.

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