Interfaces (was "The Great Debate" - POP vs IMAP (fork of Mail Problems)

[Jim Witte]

On Oct 6, 2006, at 12:11 AM, Jim Witte wrote:
>   I hadn't realized that about IMAP, and just set up a rule, run  
> after every other rule, to copy every to a local inbox folder..   
> (Most of my mail is sorted into a large hierarchy anyway).  The  
> only little problem with that is that Cmd-1 which

   The other problem is Junk Mail - the junk rule is set to run  
before anything else is apparently, not after.  Is there a way to set  
the priority short of simply making the junk rule another "normal" rule?

   Or is it time to start using massive numbers of smart folders,  
applescripts, or another email client (or start brewing my own in  
xCode - when is Apple going to come out with something called  
CoreMail, anyway..  Actually, 'MailCore', as it fits with the  
convention of 'WebCore'..

>   That's another thing that might be really nice in Mail..  Or  
> perhaps Unsanity could figure out how to hack it in - the key part  
> would be easy - just write use RegisterHotKey, and maybe figure out  
> how to override the normal key handler

Just thinking about this - or ANYWHERE in the OS - through Universal  
Access or Keyboard Shortcuts.  Not just menus - but buttons, tabs in  
tabbed views, panes, etc.  Then when a modifer (or none, or just THE  
modifier, set by user preference, although the last option would be  
hard to do fast programmatically unless lists were made up in advance  
for each program element) then mod-key appeared (like in BBEdit 6  
when you pressed Cmd in the Find dialog), or if the mod-keys were  
always there (small, small-caps type, a la the way FruitMenu displays  
it)

   And then allow those shortcuts to be assigned to ANYTHING -  
keyboard events, other events (from mouse buttons, foot pedels), or  
custom event codes that would be sent from something like a Saling  
Clicker or other remote control app, a voice recognition app.

   This kind of thing could be integrated (ad advertiezed!  as long  
as it wasn't another 1st gen Newton-with-Paragraph-recog-but-too-slow- 
a-processor-and-not-enough-emory-nor-a-big-enough-dictionary) with  
VoiceOver or whatever they call the STT side - "Speakable Options"  
just doesn't have the same ring as "VoiceOver"..  'RosettaVoice' or  
"VoiceWell' perhaps - I'm horrible at coming up with good names :)