[MlMt] UI/UX issues

[Benny Kjær Nielsen]

On 25 Jul 2017, at 0:04, Greg Earle wrote:

> I've been loving watching MailMate catch up to Apple Mail in usability 
> over the last few years, but some UI/UX issues still drive me a bit 
> crazy.

Sorry about that.

> If I switch from one folder to another, where I end up in that new 
> folder seems to be nearly random:

The main strategy is that you should end up where you were the last time 
you viewed the folder. There seems to be a combination of this and 
possible bugs resulting in the following.

> Sometimes I end up at the most recent message.  (This is good.  I like 
> this.)
>
> Sometimes I end up at a random point in the folder.  (This is not so 
> good.)
>
> Sometimes I end up at the oldest message.  (This is really not good.  
> I don't like this.)
>
> There's no Preference setting for this that I can see.  The Principle 
> of Least Surprise™ says I should either get put at the most recent 
> message, or whatever the message was that I was viewing the last time 
> I visited the folder.
>
> Is there some way to control this behavior?

Unfortunately not, but I'll make sure to note your comments such that I 
remember them when I get around to refactoring the whole mailbox state 
store/restore system.

-- 
Benny