I'm very happy for you.
I originally typed something along the lines of "...and I wonder if it's the theme that's causing the behaviour". Then I actually looked, and found that it does the same on a vanilla install here, too. I just hadn't noticed.
Have a look at:
and decide if it might suit you. No Linux version ATM, but no reason there shouldn't be.
Start typing a recipient's address, click on the correct one out of those offered, and a new 'To:' field is opened below the first. Click in it and press Backspace to get rid of it.
Crazy.
Yet another [non] improvement in a program that worked well enough already.
Looks pretty good to me. Always liked Eudora.
I'd like the ability to tweak icons and colours, but thats presumably held in style sheets?
well that was the first thing that occurred to me, too.
So I disabled everything
Well its installed and apart from the pale orange, which really doesn't fit well with wolves and the moon, its a pretty neat little add on.
Now to peek inside the source and see if I can fix that colour..
Yes, definitely in the 'because we can' rather than 'because people wanted it' camp of 'enhancements'
I mean its usable, and you can get used to anything. Even Apple OSX, but that doesn't mean you have to like the effort.
I find that when I move to the "Subject" field, that new "To" field disappears. No extra effort required. Why do you press Backspace?
Start typing recipient's name or address - press down arrow as often as necessary to highlight the right one - press Tab to select it, Tab again if there's no second recipient, start typing the Subject. Couldn't be easier.
Eudora has been a modified version of Thunderbird for a long time now (2006?) so it should do anything Thunderbird does. You cans change all the text colours in Thunderbird with some research.
except why if its so easy are we remarking on it?
I have been using thunderbird for YEARS and Eudora before that and they all ways have had simple intuitive interfaces that made it pretty clear that you had a form to fill in.
Suddenly the form is not there. Until you mouseover. No form I have ever seen on any website or application dissappears when you mouse away.
Except thunderbird.
If every other app in the world behaved like that, fine.
I mean, why didn't they make the mouse go backwards in that window? Or have it shut down the whole fsking computer?
Why stop at disappearing forms.
Anyway I can report that installing the identity thingy add on and getting rid of all its clever colors and disabling just about every single smart feature it has, has given me a pleasant usable window.
And thanks to all who replied, to establish firstly that it was 'normal' behaviour and secondly that there was an addon that removed its grosser obscenities.
I now have 50 shades of gray and form boxes that don't vanish, merely get a little recessed on mouseover.
And the new computer just got a little bit better.
Because the new 'To:' field doesn't disappear. It's left there, greyed out, with a blank entry.
I use the mouse to select the recipient and then to move to the 'Subject:' field and then the message field. I've done that for several years now and it's always worked fine. Now, someone with time on their hands, has decided to fiddle and fix something that wasn't broken. But is now.
Version 31.1 works OK on windows.
It has some resource leakage and needs to be shut down and restarted every couple of weeks to avoid ending up with missing controls but that's what you get with free software.
You're remarking on it because you think it's more difficult than it actually is. I don't know why you click in the new "To" box and press backspace, but AFAICS you actually don't need to do that. Unless you can explain why.
Or just ignore it completely.
And?
No, thats what you get with windows...;-)
Story of 14 years of Labour government really ;-)
and 4 years of coalition.
Correction accepted, but how is that a problem?
I don't understand. If you do what you used to do, it still works, doesn't it? If it doesn't work, what actually happens?
There is expected behaviour when filling in forms, and there is thunderbird 31.
Why NOT have the gear lever on your car retract until you put your foot on the brakes or take it off the accelerator, I mean, you dont need it do you?
Just because everyone else leaves it where you left it, doesnt mean we cant do better.
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