Re(8): (OT) Outlook Express email setup
Re(8): (OT) Outlook Express email setup
- Subject: Re(8): (OT) Outlook Express email setup
- From: Jens Bauer <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 6 May 2002 06:21:05 +0100
Hi Dan,
On Sun, 5 May, 2002, Dan Crevier <email@hidden> wrote:
>
> OK, whatabout removing these features from Internet Config then..
>
> We could create a new API and a control panel called "Email Account
Config".
>
> Would that solve the problem ?
>
>
Personally, I don't think the full account UI for all email clients belongs
>
in Internet Config. It would be way too complicated for every email client
>
to keep its settings in sync, and only a subset of the account settings
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would be available in Internet Config.
>
>
IC is really for settings that will be shared across many applications.
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Things like your email address belong there, but email accounts don't.
>
People typically only use one email client.
I think this is a design-issue, which can be fixed.
I strongly believe in that a brilliant API for this can be accomplished
through enhancing the design.
I see 3 places we can go:
1: Go back, remove the Internet Config interface, so we're back at
Netscape's own prefs...
2: Go nowhere, keep Internet Config; it's a great API, and makes life
easy for many people.
->3: Go forward. Make things that you don't like into things that you
like, because they're presented differently and are now even easier for
everyone to accept.
I've put an arrow where I wanna go. ;)
Love,
Jens
--
Jens Bauer, Faster Software.
-Let's make the World better, shall we ?
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