On Sun, 2007-04-22 at 17:37 -0500, Matthew Martin wrote: > > > On 2/22/07, Sankar P <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > > - You need to add a view-column, "Template name" that will > be available > > > for the Templates folder (only). All messages stored as > templates > > > should have a name associated to identify the > message-template. It is > > > far more usable to read, "Status Report", "Release > Announcement Mail", > > > "String Announcement Mail", "ABI Break announcement ;-)" > etc., rather > > > than opening every mail and seeing, "Is this what I want > to send now ?" > > > > > Shouldn't this act just like drafts? Where are we going to > get this > > template name? Would this even be all that useful? > > It will be. > > On a longer run, we are planning to have pre-defined templates > as well. > A name for a template is always more useful than looking at > the mail and > knowing. Some people do not even enable Message-Preview. And > think how > useful a name for the template will be. > > Consider the scenario when a new employee joins an office and > the moment > he opens his Evolution, he can send things like > Minutes-of-the-meeting, > Status-report, Meeting-agenda, Leave-letters in the > company-prescribed > format. These standard templates will be pushed to his machine > when the > machine was prepared for him. You can ask for the name of the > template > once the user chooses, "Save as template". > > Where should the name be stored? This is also not listed on the > bounty.
This should ideally come as an e-table column, just like sender, from, subject etc. > > > <snip> > > -- Sankar _______________________________________________ Evolution-hackers mailing list Evolution-hackers@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/evolution-hackers