Won't remember the Window Size

[Paul Wiener]

I'm with Steve all the way on this one.

On Sun, 18 Apr 1999 14:32:34 -0700, Steve Lamb wrote:

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