Hi all, Few suggestions:
* Since "Select all messages" within a folder has moved to Folder / Select all messages, can we have an additional entry in that menu: "Folder / Invert Selection" ? * Can we add sub-menu in the "Message" menu for "Label as"? So that we can access it: "Message / Label As / Work" etc. I understand this is not in the current menus (or if it is, I have not discovered it. I right-click and use this functionality).... But if we are creating a special menu for "Message", I'd vote to have this in there. * Hiding messages is gone? :) thanks, Siddharth. On Wed, 2005-01-12 at 00:04 -0500, Benjamin Kahn wrote: > On Wed, 2005-01-12 at 08:27 +0800, Not Zed wrote: > > On Tue, 2005-01-11 at 16:52 -0500, Christine McLellan wrote: > > > Hey Ben -- More feedback, this time just a few comments on the > > > proposed Message menu: > > > > > > Message / Reply -- I believe this should stay "Reply to All" to be > > > really clear. The icons can be too small to quickly know which item > > > is which and mistakenly choose Reply to All when you meant just to > > > reply to a Sender could be a tad dangerous :). > > > > > > Message / Reply to Author -- I would keep "Reply to Sender" to be > > > more consistent w/ other mail apps (and as result more familiar). > > > If this is simply a forwarded message, who is the actual author? Not > > > trying to be a brat, but I can really imagine Author being > > > confusing. > > rfc822 specifically defines 'sender', and 'from', and they needn't be > > the same. It never talks about 'author', neither does any other known > > mail application. > > Well, it obviously can happen that the terminology in an RFC and the > terminology that users use can differ. But in this case it doesn't make > sense to deviate from what we had before. > > > > What happened to Forward As>Attached, Quoted, Inline? The > > > flexibility of choosing how to forward a particular message is > > > something I probably use once a week? > > This seems to be a major departure of definitely required > > functionality, all types are required. > > > > While i'm here, the goto stuff must stay in the view menu. It was > > moved there specifically to be consistent with the other components of > > evolution. > > The other components are being changed as well. > > > Message->Mark as shouldn't be a submenu, its about the most often used > > set of items from the edit menu. > > Well, hopefully that'll come up in user testing if it's true. I have > yet to observe people ever using the Mark menu items, however. Also, if > they are so popular, shouldn't they have more hot keys? > > > > On Mon, 2005-01-10 at 12:25 -0500, Benjamin Kahn wrote: > > > > With Evolution 2.2 fast approaching with a new plugin architecture, I > > > > (along with Rodney and a bunch of other people) have been looking at the > > > > Evolution menus. > > > > > > > > We've started with with the mailer context menus and the main mailer > > > > menus. This is needed because the current menus are a discouraging mess > > > > and with menu merging from plugins, things are only going to get > > > > worse. > > > > > > > > The goals are: > > > > > > > > * Get rid of the Actions menu. > > > > * Make it obvious where to find things. (Eliminate seeking as > > > > much as possible) > > > > * Make common operations available without using submenus. > > > > * Move closer to the HIG recommendations. > > > > ( > > > > http://developer.gnome.org/projects/gup/hig/2.0/menus-standard.html ) > > > > * Provide a good structure for plugins to add new menu items. > > > > * Umm... And simplicity. > > > > > > > > I've posted screenshots of the effort to the Evolution Blog: > > > > http://codeblogs.ximian.com/blogs/evolution/archives/000441.html > > > > > > > > The latest version of the glade mockup is here: (I'll try to keep this > > > > current) > > > > http://primates.ximian.com/~xkahn/evo-menus/evo-menus.tar.gz > > > > NOTE: Evolution does not use glade to create menus. This is simply a > > > > mockup. It will never be the official version.) > > > > > > > > I am generating a patch for Evolution that uses the new menus. I'm > > > > about 50% done. > > > > > > > > And, obviously, a similar layout needs to be designed for the other > > > > components. > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > > evolution-hackers maillist - [email protected] > > > > http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/evolution-hackers > > -- > > > > Michael Zucchi <[email protected]> > > "Ride, Work, Sleep. Beer." > > Novell's Evolution and Free > > Software Developer _______________________________________________ evolution-hackers maillist - [email protected] http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/evolution-hackers
