Some things I think would be useful in tmda-gui.
- General:
* The initial frame is a bit confusing IMO. The address
generation/checking interface comes up right away, and the `Pending'
button is sort of lost in the middle there.
It might be better to launch an overview frame initially , with
buttons to go to the address or pending interface from there (or
exit).
- The pending interface:
* I'm testing the pending interface with a 12MB pending queue with
1900 messages. Not small, but I suspect many users will have one at
least this large. On a fast workstation, it takes upwards of 25
seconds after I press the `Pending' button before the pending frame
appears. I'm not sure why it's taking so long. Hopefully tmda-gui is
not reading the contents of each message as it loads?
* It's not clear that the app is doing anything during this time. If
the speed can't be improved, it might be better to give the user
some indication that it's processing messages---I initially thought
the app was hung. Same comments for `Refresh'. If not this, at least
launch the pending frame first before processing, otherwise it looks
like the button got stuck.
* It would be nice to be able to sort the messages in the pending
queue in a variety of ways. Time of message (chronological and
reverse chronological), and perhaps alphabetical and reverse alpha
from either of the other two columns.
* It would be nice to toggle the left column between displaying the
message id (e.g, 1038203674.1428.msg) and the calendar date.
* Perhaps Defaults.TERSE_SUMMARY_HEADERS should be used instead of
hardcoding the contents of the right two columns?
* The top button bar showing the message actions (Rfsh, Show, W, Rel,
etc.) is a bit ambiguous (i.e, what does `B' mean?). There seems to
be enough room there to spell out the actions in their entirety. For
extra credit, you could dynamically resize the buttons if the frame
width is resized smaller than the button bar.
* I'd be nice if the arrow keys worked in addition to the mouse, and
also if certain keys were bound to the various message actions (e.g,
`b' for blacklist, `r' for release, etc.). PageUp and PageDown would
be helpful to scroll through the message list as well.
* I think by default, the user should have to confirm his message
action before it's executed. Perhaps with a pop-up box prompting
``Are you sure you want to Delete foo?'' for example. Configuration
variables can inhibit the confirmations for ``power users''.
* When a particular message is highlighted, it would be cool to be
able to bring up the `Message' menu through a right mouse click
rather than having to return to the top of the frame to dispose of
the message.
* `Show' doesn't work for me. The display buffer shows the message
contents in a single loooooonnnnng column instead of line by line.
* `Release' doesn't work for me:
Exception in Tkinter callback
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/local/lib/python2.1/lib-tk/Tkinter.py", line 1285, in __call__
return apply(self.func, args)
File "bin/tmda-gui", line 632, in MessageRelease
self.listbox.ReleaseSelectedMessage()
File "bin/tmda-gui", line 433, in ReleaseSelectedMessage
processMessage(self.msgs[int(self.curselection()[0])], command='release')
File "bin/tmda-gui", line 115, in lib_processMessage
return '\n'.join(data)
TypeError: sequence expected, None found
* `Delete' unlinks the message, but doesn't refresh the display, so
trying to re-display the message results in:
Exception in Tkinter callback
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/local/lib/python2.1/lib-tk/Tkinter.py", line 1285, in __call__
return apply(self.func, args)
File "bin/tmda-gui", line 615, in MessageShow
(hdr, bdy) = self.listbox.GetSelectedMsgContent()
File "bin/tmda-gui", line 458, in GetSelectedMsgContent
command='show').split('\n\n', 1)
File "bin/tmda-gui", line 105, in lib_processMessage
msg = Pending.Message(msgid)
File "/usr/home/jasonrm/cvs/tmda/dist/TMDA/Pending.py", line 390, in __init__
raise MessageError, MessageError('%s not found!' % self.msgid)
MessageError: TMDA.Pending.MessageError:
1036426240.24133.msg not found!
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