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"There is no opportunistic mode"
which also refers to such necessary feature as "close to tray".
Outlook, Thunderbird? Nevermind. If your muscle memory fails you just once, you will be sitting the entire day without email notifications, because apparently UX is shit and "X" mark really killed the process instead of sensible minimizing to tray, and of course there is no out-of-the-box option to change behaviour in both programs! -
@vintprox
It can be minimized to task bar though.
And my muscle memory knows whether i want to keep something open or not - so it chooses accurately between minimize and close buttons behaving like they always do. -
@Oktokolo I don't want easy killing the app, plus to press Minimize button you have to move mouse left a bit, while for Close it's just rush onto top right corner. Mailing app shouldn't be as persistent as browser, unless for notifications.
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@vintprox
I like clicking the taskbar button to minimize an app - no accidental closing there...
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Since Thunderbird has native support for OpenPGP encryption, i can only chose to encrypt all or no messages by default. There is no opportunistic mode and there are no per-reciepient encryption preferences. The Enigmail addon had both.
So i obviously have gone for encrypt-by-default.
But since then, whenever i want to send a message to the majority of my contacts, i have to manually disable the encryption or get annoyed by the no-key-found dialog.
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