. . . >On Fri, 2003-07-11 at 13:59, guenther wrote: >> By a quick look at the mockups that is *exactly* what I thought. These >> icons are neat, but a dropdown menu with icons would save me a lot of >> space for my fairly huge list of mail folders. > >Looks fairly good. > >What about completely seperating that stuff to multiple toplevel >windows? So we could drag an e-mail message to the calendar window and >create a meeting entry. And dragging the entry to the tasks window can >create a new task entry, or even, vice-versa. > >In the current design, I don't see any usable way of achieving this; if >you see such a feature something useful, though. >--
a couple of suggestions: for the buttons with more than one word (Send/Receive, Work Week, etc), maybe stack the words on top of each other since the icons already take up enough vertical space to minimize that impact; this would reduce the horizontal "clutter" while allowing more functionality on a given menu bar. also, maintaining the option to place the text beneath the icon. either of these could, with planning and luck, allow for the need of fewer menu bars, permitting more functional use of visual space with the aforementioned in mind, perhaps putting the "contains" search fields in the menu bar, since there is adequate space in most of the photos, even without the suggested modifications if the new buttons are retained, having them immediately below the menu bar, in a horizontal line along the same horizon as the current "contains" search field, possibly slightly smaller buttons; this would allow the full new style of functionality while reducing the negative impact on usable space maybe hotkeys if they could be done mnemonically without hurting what people are already used to. this may reduce the desire for additional buttons while allowing speedier access to those functions _______________________________________________ evolution maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/evolution
