Won't remember the Window Size

[Steve Lamb]

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On Sun, 18 Apr 1999 17:19:11 -0400, pjchris wrote:

>Thanks.  All my other apps seem to remember resizings without me having
>to use a command to do it.  It never occured to me I'd have to tell it
>to remember the size.  That's what OS/2 does for you, spoiled I guess.

    I just knew this would be misunderstood.  No, it was a concious choice
not to have PMMail(/2|98) to remember window positions and changes to the
sort order made from the window dialog instead of the properties dialog.
Here's why.

    You want to compare two messages, so you open two windows and move one to
the side.  Any other application will see that move and keep it even though
it is just a temporary thing to you.  So with other applications you now need
to move it back.  There is no consistancy, no default state regardless of
what you may do temporarily in the course of your work.

    As for not remembering the changes made to the sort order from the window
dialog (mainly PMMail98 here) same reason.  I like my sent mail sorted by
date/time decending by default.  But sometimes I am looking for a specific
mail that I sent to an individual, I just don't know the date.  I click on
the "to" field and now the order is change.  But then I realze it wasn't to
the person I thought it was so I click on the subject sort so I can look
through my mail that way.  Any other application would save those settings
and now my sort order would be subject(d), to(d), date/time(d).  There is no
need for me to switch it back as it wasn't set permanantly.  I just leave and
the next time PMMail is shutdown and started, my settings are back.

    In all honesty, it is a feature and one that I most dearly LOVE about
PMMail.  It is the only Windows program to date that doesn't try to outguess
me on the way I work.  Bob and Ike realized that no matter how smart they
make PMMail, it is still a program and is still stupider than the average
user.  :)


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