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* Some of the options are used by very few users and should be ditched in favour of system default.<br><span style="background:yellow;">Provide specifics, please. I'll bet folding money that every one you want to take away has far more proponents than you imagine.</span> | * Some of the options are used by very few users and should be ditched in favour of system default.<br><span style="background:yellow;">Provide specifics, please. I'll bet folding money that every one you want to take away has far more proponents than you imagine.</span> | ||
**For example, General/When New Messages Arrive is one of those unnecessary options. System defaults should be used automatically. | **For example, General/When New Messages Arrive is one of those unnecessary options. System defaults should be used automatically. | ||
**Also, I don't believe most users care about what serif font they want to use to read their emails. Again, system defaults can be used for most (but not all, minimum font size could be kept) of the font options. | **Also, I don't believe most users care about what serif font they want to use to read their emails. Again, system defaults can be used for most (but not all, minimum font size could be kept) of the font options.<br><span style="background:yellow;">I can't imagine these settings going away. As of 1.5, Fonts are isolated on their own tab. The fonts settings dialogs is unfortunately complex, but that's due to the requirement for multi-language support.</span> | ||
**Enable javascript in emails is a dangerous option to keep in the options dialogue. Most emails with javascript are sent by viruses | **Enable javascript in emails is a dangerous option to keep in the options dialogue. Most emails with javascript are sent by viruses | ||
* The junk mail dialogue should be merged into options and grouped along with sanitization options, password options, certificates etc. under ''Junk Mail and Privacy'' ([https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=257990 bug 257990]). | * The junk mail dialogue should be merged into options and grouped along with sanitization options, password options, certificates etc. under ''Junk Mail and Privacy'' ([https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=257990 bug 257990]). | ||
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Even the main window contains an entire (uncustomizable) row I consider superfluous: | Even the main window contains an entire (uncustomizable) row I consider superfluous: | ||
* The list of folders is clearly a list of folders. Even when not named so, users will probably suspect that clicking Inbox brings them to the inbox. | * The list of folders is clearly a list of folders. Even when not named so, users will probably suspect that clicking Inbox brings them to the inbox.<br><span style="background:yellow;">First: it is customizeable, somewhat: the Advanced option <tt>Show expanded columns in the folder pane</tt>. Second, with [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=330797 bug 330797], that "Folders" label is now active, and cycles between the various View|Folders settings.</span> | ||
* The "Search bar" toolbar contains the unpopular View-dropdown (which should return as addable toolbar item). The search-box could be merged with the "Mail toolbar" toolbar, as it is in Firefox. | * <strike>The "Search bar" toolbar contains the unpopular View-dropdown (which should return as addable toolbar item). The search-box could be merged with the "Mail toolbar" toolbar, as it is in Firefox.</strike><span style="background:yellow;">This has been done for TB 2.0: [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=324194 bug 324194]</span> | ||