9Val <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > We'd like to hear your opinions about most un-obvious things you > ever encountered using TB!
OK - Unobvious things in TB! I'm interpreting this as either things which are hard to understand how to do, or features with "un-obvious" uses - Colour Groups: As TB! comes with no inbuilt groups at all, the "Colour Groups" faetures is un-obvious and complex to set-up. The simple expediant of preconfiguring TB at install with ToDo, Personal, Work, Important etc (say 5 or 6 named labels) with strong colours would make this easier to understand. You can keep the customisation options, but just give people a starter - Filtering of views. Similar to colour groups regarding preconmfiguring. Installing a collection of default filters for the colour groups (important / Todo etc). You already have the group by date (which is brilliant and I use all the time), but this is difficult to find. Having this included on a new Filters dropdown wold be useful. - Followups. The entire scheduler interface is unobvious even to experienced TB users. You should extend the simple right click "Remind me in..." to include user defined date options, and move all the conditional response stuff (probably completely in my view). This needs to be a simple UI.. with the options to access the "Every 3rd Thursday in April every 17 years" supressed. (BTW - I don't think TB can actually handle that repeat request. Its one of the few options not covered ;-) - You should be able to specify a followup period when creating a message. It is not at all obvious that you need to to mark your "just sent" message for followup. - Mailchat and Submission forms. Can these just disappear. Does anyone use them? If we got rid of these, then Commmon Chat folders could disappear too. WHAT is Common Chat anyway? Is there "Uncommon chat", or "elite chat" available? (is it one of these? http://wildlife.state.co.us/species_profiles/yellowbreastedchat.asp - How to change the font. OK - Just how many places are there to change the font in TB (4?, 5?.. more?) Why is there no option to "User the default font size character " etc, and have all these individual ones for folder, message etc override this if they have been set. A simple request of "Mmh thats a bit big / small - I want to change it" gives rise to a 30 minutes amble round the UI trying to se the right font height style colour to change. Many browsers /editors even allow to to use the cntrl and mouse scroll to interactively change font sizes. - The whole editor thing needs unifying. Its currently a horrible mess which shows how TB has evolved over the years. Just give me 1 editor please, which has all the capability we need. If you can't handle that - then at least let me shell out to my favourite text editor and use that instead. - You guys already know my feelings that addressing based on LDAP is very unobvious and needs addressing. Setting it up isn't too hard, its just that TB doesn't allow you to actually USE properly it when creating messages. Searching LDAP should be as transparent as searching the personal directory, and (be able to be set to) happen as you type in an address. Don't get me started on the whole area of how TB doesn't handle collections of addresses properly (i.e. being able to see them all or add/remove them into groups easily) OK- here is a starter - I'm sure people will have others. -- Best regards, Graham ________________________________________________________ Current beta is 3.5.21 | 'Using TBBETA' information: http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html IMPORTANT: To register as a Beta tester, use this link first - http://www.ritlabs.com/en/partners/testers/
