[MlMt] inconsistent reply button setting

Max Rydahl Andersen max.andersen at gmail.com
Thu Jun 11 05:16:17 EDT 2015


On 11 Jun 2015, at 11:09, Benny Kjær Nielsen wrote:

> On 9 Jun 2015, at 11:33, Max Rydahl Andersen wrote:
>
>> When I go and set "When pressing cmd+R then reply to all" clicking 
>> the Reply button only reply to sender, not to all.
>>
>> I have to set "ask for reply type" to get reply all in this case.
>>
>> Funny enough cmd+R actually does work as the setting states.
>>
>> Any reason the Reply button does not match what cmd+R does ?
>
> It is because there is a separate “Reply All” button for the 
> toolbar. If the “Reply” button defaulted to “Reply All” then 
> it wouldn't be possible to have both Reply and Reply All in the 
> toolbar.
>
> It is probably tricky to make this work in a way that'll satisfy every 
> user, but I can see why it's a bit confusing as it is now. One 
> alternative would be to let the “Reply” button behave as you 
> describe and then allow a “Reply Sender” button as well for those 
> explicitly wanting that. That would mirror the behavior of the menu 
> items I believe.

What caught me of guard is that the Reply button does react to the 
setting if set to "ask".

So I expected it to be aligned with the menu/shortcut.

/max
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