On Thu, 2005-04-28 at 18:29 +0530, Sarfraaz Ahmed wrote: > Hi, > > There has been strong user feedback that having an exchange component to > perform all exchange specific operations is not very intuitive and not > very user friendly. Favourite folder handling is especially very > difficult to apprehend. Here are some suggestions to make this user > interface a bit easier for exchange. > > The requirements can be summarised as : > 1. Users should be able to perform exchange specific operations [ viz., > Change exchange password, subscribe/unsubscribe folders, Folder Size, > Out of office, Delegation, folder permissions, add to favourites ] from > any evolution component seamlessly. > 2. There should be an easy way for the user to view all the public > folders and mark/unmark them as favourites. > > Solutions : > 1. For the exchange specific operations, we would have menu items in all > components. We can have an account specific menu item, which would be > present only when a particular account type is enabled. This menu item > would have a list of sub-items which would actually be the tasks. [ > Guess, there is already some thought on these lines ? ]
I'm strongly against context sensitive main menus. They shouldn't hide and show menu items depending on account. > 2. Favourite folder management can be done as âsubscribe to foldersâ is > currently handled. User sees the list of public folders there and can > check/uncheck them to mark/unmark them as favourite folders. This would > be another menu item. Is there any particular reason that this can't just be done through the current "Subscribe to Folders" interface? I would greatly prefer minimizing the possibility of new menu items. It's already large as it is, and plug-ins don't really help the matter. :) -- dobey _______________________________________________ evolution-hackers maillist - [email protected] http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/evolution-hackers
