On Fri, 2005-04-29 at 14:25 -0400, Rodney Dawes wrote: > 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.
Radical idea: how about having "Folder" and "Email" top-level menus in the Mail component? (with corresponding "Addressbook" and "Contact" in the Addressbook component etc). Then most of the context-sensitive thing could go here. > > > 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 _______________________________________________ evolution-hackers maillist - [email protected] http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/evolution-hackers
