Peter Trudelle wrote:
> Sorry for not responding to this promptly:
>
> Neil wrote
>
>> Assume that for News you will have two menubuttons, Reply and Reply All.
>>
>> Option 1 - As per 4.0 for Windows: Mail has a Reply menubutton with
>> Reply and Reply to All
>
> This was not very discoverable, and required extra effort for the
> still common 'reply all' scenario, for which most popular MUAs have a
> separate button.
>
>> Option 2 - As per 4.5 for Windows: Mail has a Reply button and a
>> Reply All button
>
> I like this fine, but then I participated in the 4.5 mail design...
>
>> The possible problem with these is that the location of other
>> buttons may change depending on whether Mail or News is being read.
>
> Not sure why, if News also has both. (btw, we referred to this
> movement as menu or button "boogie")
Because buttons and menubuttons skin differently, at least in Classic,
unless you change the dul menubuttons to Netscape 4.5 style...
>> Option 3 - As per 4.x for Mac: Mail has menubuttons but the News
>> menuitems are disabled
>
> There was very strong resistance to reply-all for News really mean
> "all", I don't recall the details, but if nobody else does I might
> still be able to look it up.
I'm not sure what you mean here. I'm not going to change any of the
buttons, just add the menus.
>> Option 4 - Completely New: Mail has menubuttons but the menus are
>> disabled
>
> I'm not really sure what the buttons and menu items would be in this
> option.
The buttons will be as they are currently in Mozilla. The news menu
items will be the same for all options, Reply giving you the choice of
sender or group, Reply all will give you the choice of sender and group,
or all recipients.
