> I almost never use the buttons so that's irrelevant to me. I quite like the toolbar buttons, and people who are newer to Evo will probably use them more too. So maybe the toolbar buttons can be changed, but only when there's the appropriate list headers? Example toolbar buttons:
Normal email: [ Reply ] [ Reply to All ] [ Forward ] .... A list email: [ Private Reply ] [ Reply to List ] [ Reply to All ] [ Forward ] .... I'd even be tempted to swap the order, for list emails, so that the most common action is on the left, namely: A list email: [ Reply to List ] [ Private Reply ] [ Reply to All ] [ Forward ] .... (although I'm not sure about this) I'd also be tempted to get rid of "Reply to All" for list emails, so as to stop the toolbar width from expanding excessively, and since most people CC'ed to a list email will also be subscribers to that email list: A list email: [ Reply to List ] [ Private Reply ] [ Forward ] .... So that'd leave toolbar buttons something like this: Normal email: [ Reply ] [ Reply to All ] [ Forward ] .... A list email: [ Reply to List ] [ Private Reply ] [ Forward ] .... Main criticisms of this that I can think of are: * It changes the toolbar buttons based on message content, so potential to confuse people (although I think making the buttons appropriate for the message might outweigh this). * The functions of the "reply to all" and "private reply" buttons are almost the opposite of each other, but yet they occupy the exact same toolbar position for the different message types. (So perhaps "Private Reply" should be to the left of "Reply to List"?) * There's no toolbar button for reply to the list and cc'ing everyone that was cc'ed to the message that you received. (Is this something we should care about, when this functionality is available through the menu? Toolbars are just for the most common actions, not for every possible action.) > a button added that has "Reply To List" that would > be greyed out when the message is not from a list (that > would satisfy the idiots). I don't think a "Reply to List" toolbar button should be shown at all if it's not relevant to the message. Different toolbar buttons, depending on whether it's a list message or not, might possibly be better. Screen space is valuable, as is the effort required to build a mental model of what the toolbar buttons mean (which is IMHO why the "Cancel" toolbar button should be removed, since it's scary looking, since it's unclear what it's cancelling if you have multiple simultaneous operations running, and since it often doesn't work anyway as there seem to be some operations that cannot be cancelled). > Remember, there are three different things which are affected... > *keystroke* *menu item* *button* ... and I only rarely use keystroke or menu item, so no opinion on those. > I don't know about anyone else but I'm a bit lost. It seems like > it shouldn't be too difficult to collect all the current relevant > behaviour into one table and then produce a second table showing > the suggested new behaviour. If we kept that and continued to > update it I think more people would be able to follow the discussion > and comment on it. Yes, that would help. A table showing the current behaviour versus most up-to-date suggested new behaviour would be much clearer. -- All the best, Nick. _______________________________________________ evolution-list mailing list [email protected] To change your list options or unsubscribe, visit ... http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/evolution-list
