In my opinion, the top right menu should be tabbed.. (I have a large collection of folders on the left :) ) and maybe somthing ala Evolution/Thunderbird "Email preview" ?
On Sun, 05 Mar 2006 14:46:45 +0100, Thomas Bruederli <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Alex King wrote: >> Apologies in advance if I should have contacted a dev owner directly >> instead of the list. If this was sent to the wrong place, please let me >> know the proper place and I'll pursue this there. > > That's what the list is here for. >> >> -- >> >> Hello List-- >> >> I'd like to have tabbed e-mail, and I'd like a better webmail client. I >> think RoundCube could be the solution to both: >> >> http://www.alexking.org/blog/2006/03/02/tabbed-e-mail/ > > I like your idea. There's an other OSS webmail introducing tabs: > http://sourceforge.net/projects/nimail/ >> >> With the excellent job the dev team has done thus far, I'm sure you've >> gotten a ton of pet feature requests. However, I'm willing to write the >> code for mine - *if* a patch would be accepted into core. > > You're welcome to do so. >> >> Basically, I'd like to introduce a "tabbed interface" option (or >> default, if you prefer, but I think an option is a good intermediary >> step). The existing RoundCube interface, which replaces the main screen >> with a screen dedicated to the selected function (reading, writing, >> choosing from a list), is well suited to accept tabs. > > The "ajaxification" of RoundCube is not complete. We already had > discussions about how to improve the interface and reduce the number of > "complete page loads" and use more DOM operations to show/hide elements. > For example when opening a message, the message list should just be > hidden without loading the whole page. This would make the application > even faster. I totally agree with this and I guess that we should first > implement the basics for that and put the tabbed-interface on top. >> >> I've worked on a number of OS projects and would be capable of creating >> both the back-end code (using whatever coding conventions you prefer) >> and the front-end code (images, XHTML, CSS) to add this as an option. >> I've also got some experience building advanced, cross-platform AJAX >> applications (FeedLounge). >> >> If this is a feature you'd be interested in having in the product? >> Perhaps there is someone I should talk to about the best way to do the >> implementation (the 5 minute architecture tour)? > > You can ask me about the architecture or you can contact Justin Randell > <justin[a]babel[.]com[.]au> who once suggested to optimize the GUI in > the way I described further up. >> >> Cheers, >> --Alex King >> >> Personal Business FeedLounge >> http://alexking.org http://kingdesign.net http://feedlounge.com >> > Regards, > Thomas
