These comments were originally posted by a user but, unwilling to expose his name, they were retracted.
Some of these experiences seem to be mistakes in this user's own understanding of the way the features work.
Here is his posting (moderated, slightly edited and commented upon):
That's why there's a "Save as draft" option. That marks the draft message read and completely avoids the problem.
Yes, customization is a lot more complex. I have had to redefine hotkeys in multiple locations because customization applies to specific menus and toolbars. Many functions appear in more than location and until all are redefined, old functionality still takes precedence.
... and here was me thinking the icons were mid-sized to avoid the issue. I don't find they take up too much real estate, but clearly this user does. An option is not an unreasonable request here.
That will probably be down to the new dividing line after every account name in the folder tree. Maybe that visual aspect could be optional, but it's not a major usability issue IMHO
I don't do "HTML emails" (oxymoron) so I can't make any sensible comment.
I like that suggestion. 
Thank you for your comments.
Some of these experiences seem to be mistakes in this user's own understanding of the way the features work.
Here is his posting (moderated, slightly edited and commented upon):
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Here are my personal experiences with upgrading to v3 from v2 (my usage of TheBat goes back to v1). I did a test install on a spare computer and was hesitant because I found almost nothing new, only a few cosmetic changes. I found that spellcheck now works in HTML mode, which was why I finally decided to upgrade, but that is the only significant improvement. However, after doing the upgrade on my live computer I found so many negatives in v3 versus v2 that I have decided to DOWNGRADE back to v2! After working with it live for about an hour, these are the negatives that hit me immediately: Negatives: - TheBat bolds the account name when there are unread emails, and I like that. Unfortunately the new version now also bolds the account name just because there are messages in the outbox, and I definitely do not like that. I regularly write and save emails for later composition and don't want them 'lighting' up the account. |
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- Hotkey customization doesn't work. I removed the 'view message source' hotkey (F9) and reassigned it to 'mark as spam' but it still invokes 'view message source.' |
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- The icons are huge and take up too much real estate. There's no option for small icons. |
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- The account names take up too much real estate. I have 34 accounts, which used to all fit on the screen. Now they don't. |
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- I often cut text from webpage articles and paste into HTML emails. The paste used to be in default text with no attributes. Now it pastes all the text HTML attributes as well. It is a real pain to have to constantly remove all the attributes. At least give the option to paste the text only. This is a BIG negative for me! |
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Positives: + Spellcheck now works in HTML (the main reason I wanted to upgrade) Suggested improvements: * Give the ability to customize the colors of the account names so accounts can be grouped and important accounts can be spotted more easily. I would consider this to be a major improvement. |
Thank you for your comments.
iviarck