Peter Lawler wrote:
>
> Jennifer Glick wrote:
> >
> > The mail team has started working on offline mail implementation. If
> > anyone has any suggestions for improving the UI from the 4.x
> > implementation, complaints about 4.x implementation, or any other
> > things you'd like to see regarding offline mail, please post a note
> > to this newsgroup.
>...
> Does this include the Offline syncronisation dialog? In 4.x, it was
> pretty poor - very hard to manage with multiple servers, mailboxes &
> groups. Some form of better selection & maybe profile selection would
> be nice.
>...
Funnily enough, that was going to be my one suggestion ...
Something to try would be the sort of interface used in mammoth
installers (such as the installer for Microsoft Office), where
components contain a number of sub-components.
+-----------------------------------------------------+
| Synchronize ::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: |
+-----------------------------------------------------+
| _Items to synchronize: |
| +-----------------------------------------------+-+ |
| | V [-] E-mail |A| |
| | V [/] student.canterbury.ac.nz |:| |
| | [/] Unsent Messages |:| |
| | [/] Inbox |:| |
| | [/] Trash |:| |
| | > [ ] mailandnews.com |:| |
| | > [/] Newsgroups |:| |
| | V [ ] Address Books |:| |
| | [ ] Personal Address Book |:| |
| | [ ] Mozilla People |V| |
| +-----------------------------------------------+-+ |
| [/] _Save these as default synchronization settings | [perhaps]
| |
| [/] Go _offline after synchronizing |
| |
| ( Cancel ) (( Synchronize )) |
+-----------------------------------------------------+
This would depend on an XP Toolkit bug to create tri-state checkboxes
(off, on, and partly-on), since I don't think we have those yet.
--
Matthew `mpt' Thomas, Mozilla user interface QA
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