On Sat, 19 Jun 2004 00:39:38 -0400 (Eastern Daylight Time) Alan G Isaac <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
AGI> When adding an attachment to an email, AGI> I press ctrl-i and get a file dialogue. AGI> After accepting a filename, a new dialogue AGI> comes up to pin down the attachment properties. AGI> Suppose I accidentally accept a filename AGI> (since Enter and Backspace are near each other) AGI> then press "Cancel" in the attachment properties AGI> dialogue. It does NOT cancel the attachment! AGI> AGI> This seems very dangerous. AGI> Either the attachment should be cancelled, AGI> or we should be warned that the file is still attached. AGI> Right? The UI is indeed bad but the trouble is that the attachment is really added after the first dialog and the second is shown to edit the properties of an already existing attachment. The same dialog is indeed used if you click on an attachment in the composer, so it would be surprizing if cancelling it removed the attachment... Of course, we may only remove the attachment if cancel is pressed in this dialog only when it is shown for the first time, but this would make the behaviour of the dialog itself inconsistent :-( I don't see what would be the best UI here. Or, rather, I do: ideally you'd be able to set the attachment properties when choosing the file name, but we can't do this (the standard file dialog is, well, standard and we can't [easily] add more fields to it). For now I've decided to follow your suggestion and not add the attachment if the dialog was cancelled. It's not ideal, but still better than the current behaviour. Maybe we should ask the user whether he wants to just cancel the dialog or to remove the attachment, but OTOH adding yet another annoying msg box doesn't appeal that much to me neither. Regards, VZ ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email sponsored by Black Hat Briefings & Training. Attend Black Hat Briefings & Training, Las Vegas July 24-29 - digital self defense, top technical experts, no vendor pitches, unmatched networking opportunities. Visit www.blackhat.com _______________________________________________ Mahogany-Users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/mahogany-users
