On Saturday 27 October 2012 23:28:54 Felix Miata wrote:
On 2012-10-27 22:44 (GMT+0100) Lisi Reisz composed:
As to the original question why you can't change the default: it's FOSS. Either it disappeared or got hidden by accident and no one noticed, or no one ever got around to providing the option in the first place.
This is a very new situation, so someone _has_ changed it, either deliberately or accidentally.
Be thankful you have Trinity and KMail3 instead of being stuck with an unsupported old version, KDE4, or something worse. :-)
As I said, put up or shut up. But as I also said, I can always hope.
What are the two blank lines for in your interpretation?
What blank lines? What "interpretation"?
The two blank lines that are inserted where the cursor is.
For "what interpretation", I refer you to your own email. It is these that are the main irritant because they have to be deleted. I move the cursor around anyway.
Why should it be easier to interleave starting from the top than from the bottom?
I can't imagine myself doing it upside down, but I should think similarly as for reading[1]:
As I said, by all means speak for yourself. The position of the cursor does not affect my reading ability, and there is usually no trimming to do once I have the composition window.
Because it breaks the logical typical sequence of formulating a response, start to finish, instead of upside down or back to front.
Naturally anyone can start anywhere they please in any competent email composition window, but people do tend to start things at the beginning more often than at the end or in the middle,
Yes, the vast majority of people just start typing, so end up top posting and not trimming at all.
making top a quite logical default even if the many clueless take as an inducement to start composing without doing any culling, or even thinking, about what they are doing or where they are.
The result is that everything is in the wrong order - see your own post script.
A: Because it breaks the logical sequence of the discussion. Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing? A: Top-posting. Q: What is the most annoying thing on usenet and in e-mail?
So don't encourage it by having the cursor at the top and leaving the blank lines there.
Blank lines left intact, so hopefully they will transmit. Lisi