On Thu, 2003-07-10 at 19:42, Ettore Perazzoli wrote: > > * It's not obvious from the mockups whether or not it will be > > possible to collapse trees. (i.e. I don't see any +/- button > > there.) Hopefully that will still be possible. > > Yeah, Anna just had trouble filling up the tree widget with some content > in Glade so she just cut and pasted some text with the Gimp instead. It > is supposed to be a tree, just like the one we have now. > > (Actually, we might port it to GtkTreeView. Mike Kestner had ported it > a while ago but we decided to stick with ETree for 1.4 to limit the > number of changes; now it makes sense to put that code back in.) > > > * It should be possible to reorder/remove or at least collapse the > > top-level categories (i.e. the "On My Computer," "On > > sensitive.org," and "Virtual Folders" that appear on the list in > > evo_mail2.png). > > Same as above. This is also supposed to be a tree. > > This is a very rough, early mockup to explain what the basic idea is, we > are going to have a more specific design later. ;-) > > > * Should the search bar at the top be labeled with "Search"? It > > might improve usability to have "Search for [Messages > > Containing] <input field>" instead of "[Message Contains] <input > > field>" > > The current way actually doesn't have a Search label either, I don't > know if it has ever been shown to be a usability problem. I think Anna > tested it on people before. > > > * I don't see a Clear button for the search bar. How will that > > work? > > Yeah, this is an oversight, instead of the magnifier icon there is going > to be a "clear search" icon there. > > > * In the calendar/contacts screenshots, I see a "Filter by > > Category" list. Will that also be available on the in the mail > > view? > > That would be nice, yeah. It's a pretty commonly requested feature, and > I assume is easy to implement in the mailer?
what exactly would it do? > > > * If you axe the Summary, you'll only have 5 navigation buttons > > (or whatever you call them), and that will look unbalanced. :) > > The layout of the buttons actually will have to be dynamic in some way, > since we want to allow new components to be plugged in and the view > should just cope with that (and in particular, Connector might want to > have its own button there as well). > > We'll have to write some custom layout code and try to figure out what > is the best way to move them around when the size of the pane changes. > > -- Ettore > _______________________________________________ > evolution maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/evolution -- Jeffrey Stedfast Evolution Hacker - Ximian, Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] - www.ximian.com _______________________________________________ evolution-hackers maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/evolution-hackers
