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April 7th, 2003, 12:23 am

Post Posted April 7th, 2003, 12:23 am

I'd like to see in minotaur one of M2's features I love: Quick Reply!

Below the preview pane there's a box (area) where you can type a reply and a button to send the reply instantly...


there is an example:

http://www.opera.com/graphics/docs/scre ... 07c71db1e2
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April 8th, 2003, 7:19 am

Post Posted April 8th, 2003, 7:19 am

Havent used M2, don't think i will, bu yes...i think this could be a good thing!

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April 19th, 2003, 5:22 am

Post Posted April 19th, 2003, 5:22 am

Love it!
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April 21st, 2003, 10:57 am

Post Posted April 21st, 2003, 10:57 am

I like this idea too (with a knob to turn it off, of course, when you don't have enough screen real-estate).
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April 21st, 2003, 11:02 am

Post Posted April 21st, 2003, 11:02 am

Hmm that is an interesting idea. Once Thunderbird is a little further along, I'll investigate this more.

You don't deal with replying to text at all in this box right? If you want to quote the message you bring up a compose window. This is just for typing a quick response without any attachments or quoted parts.

I imagine we could have a checkbox under View / Toolbars for showing/hiding the quick reply bar. And it would have a grippy on it so you could make change the height:

Thread Pane
Message Pane
Quick Reply Pane

Thanks for the suggestion.
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April 21st, 2003, 11:23 am

Post Posted April 21st, 2003, 11:23 am

I envisage a preference (which would currently appear under "Options -> Composition") to allow me to choose whether or not "quick reply" quotes the original message, and the preference for top or bottom quoting would be applied...
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April 23rd, 2003, 4:56 am

Post Posted April 23rd, 2003, 4:56 am

dseven wrote:I envisage a preference (which would currently appear under "Options -> Composition") to allow me to choose whether or not "quick reply" quotes the original message, and the preference for top or bottom quoting would be applied...


I agree with that, but no more options. If you want that you can use the regular reply method.
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April 23rd, 2003, 5:56 am

Post Posted April 23rd, 2003, 5:56 am

dseven wrote:I envisage a preference (which would currently appear under "Options -> Composition") to allow me to choose whether or not "quick reply" quotes the original message, and the preference for top or bottom quoting would be applied...


You're joking, right?

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May 7th, 2003, 11:42 pm

Post Posted May 7th, 2003, 11:42 pm

I'm glad to see that I'm not the only one who wants that feature... I hope someday it would be added to thunderbird/minotaur.
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May 8th, 2003, 8:27 am

Post Posted May 8th, 2003, 8:27 am

Looks like it could be a nice addition, provided it's not too intrusive. Re: some above comments, it wouldn't be a quick reply if you end up messing around with quoting and such in this window. As stated, that's best left for a proper compose window.
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May 13th, 2003, 2:07 am

Post Posted May 13th, 2003, 2:07 am

I think that there are quite a few features in Opera that should be copied into Thunderbird (and Firebird). - and I certainly like the Quick Reply feature.

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May 14th, 2003, 1:41 pm

Post Posted May 14th, 2003, 1:41 pm

i'm not getting it, what's quick reply?
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May 14th, 2003, 1:45 pm

Post Posted May 14th, 2003, 1:45 pm

Download Opera and try out the mail client and you'll see the quick reply feature.

I personally think that everyone in these forums shoudl download and use as many different mail clients as possible. That will give people a bette understanding of what other features are out there and whether they would be usefull to implement them.

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May 17th, 2003, 10:43 am

Post Posted May 17th, 2003, 10:43 am

duns0014 wrote:i'm not getting it, what's quick reply?


You can see a picture of it at

http://www.opera.com/graphics/docs/scre ... 5577c46ed0

I posted a link to it at the first post..

Look at the button "Quick reply" (lower right) and see what's on the left of it
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May 17th, 2003, 1:32 pm

Post Posted May 17th, 2003, 1:32 pm

Hey.... that theme in the screenshot is pretty cool....
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