[Gllug] email readers
Chris Bell
chrisbell at overview.demon.co.uk
Sun Sep 14 19:06:25 UTC 2008
On Sun 14 Sep, Nix wrote:
>
> On 13 Sep 2008, Chris Bell spake thusly:
> > I have attached a screenshot. I can list mails in several ways for
> > convenient viewing, open several items at the same time, scroll up or down
> > the mail lists, choose to reply, delete, save to any location, dump to an
> > editor, view my address list, generally with a sinple mouse click.
>
> See, I'd find that interface nearly intolerable. If you can't get from
> one mail to the next with a simple space, and if space/BS don't also
> serve as pgdn/pgup in the email, and if the old and new email don't
> occupy the same place on the screen, I simply get hit with sensory
> overload and lose track of which emails I've got open at all.
>
Select the up or down triangles for the next or previous emails, each
occupies the same space as the previous, but I can also drag any to a
different part of the screen and continue from there, and/or open another
window to view a different email. It is easy to refer to or compare with
another.
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