68586 - Is "Advance to next unread in group x" dialog really needed?

Status: VERIFIED INVALID

(SeaMonkey :: MailNews: Message Display, enhancement)

Description

[Sebastian Späth]

One thing which bothers me is when I am navigating though unread news messages 
via keyboard and get the: "Do you want to proceed to next unread in group x 
dialog".

It makes me take my fingers from <N> and <arrow down>, to press <enter>.
As I always use three splitted display (groups, messages and message display) 
and see the number of unread messages all the time, it is obvious to me that 
when pressing "n" I want to jump to the next newsgroup if there are none unread 
left.

Could we use this behavior e.g. only in the message stand-alone windows or 
*cough* make it a pref?

Comment 1

[[e-mail]]

Or press space (near N), since Blake fixed space to press the focused button.
Actually I quite like the warning because the location bar that I have written
doesn't show me when the folder has been read :-)

Comment 2

[laurel]

The confirmation dialog is present in Communicator 4.x, so we implemented to
suit, I believe.  I also remember from 4.x time before the confirmation was
implemented that users were quite confused when the navigation started into
another folder without warning, hence the dialog was implemented. Particularly
going across accounts, I can see where a portion of the user population might
need a confirmation.

Comment 3

[Sebastian Späth]

It is OK for me to <space> the dialog away (nice tip BTW), so feel free to close 
this bug as invalid. 

A "don't bother me ever again" checkbox would of course be great, if the UI gods 
decide it doesn't look too ugly.

Comment 4

[Keyser Sose]

Marking INVALID as per reporters comments.

Comment 5

[fenella]

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