[Evolution-hackers] Re: UI changes for exchange

[Rodney Dawes <dobey novell com>]

On Thu, 2005-04-28 at 18:29 +0530, Sarfraaz Ahmed wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> There has been strong user feedback that having an exchange component to 
> perform all exchange specific operations is not very intuitive and not 
> very user friendly. Favourite folder handling is especially very 
> difficult to apprehend. Here are some suggestions to make this user 
> interface a bit easier for exchange.
> 
> The requirements can be summarised as :
> 1. Users should be able to perform exchange specific operations [ viz., 
> Change exchange password, subscribe/unsubscribe folders, Folder Size, 
> Out of office, Delegation, folder permissions, add to favourites ] from 
> any evolution component seamlessly.
> 2. There should be an easy way for the user to view all the public 
> folders and mark/unmark them as favourites.
> 
> Solutions :
> 1. For the exchange specific operations, we would have menu items in all 
> components. We can have an account specific menu item, which would be 
> present only when a particular account type is enabled. This menu item 
> would have a list of sub-items which would actually be the tasks. [ 
> Guess, there is already some thought on these lines ? ]

I'm strongly against context sensitive main menus. They shouldn't hide
and show menu items depending on account.

> 2. Favourite folder management can be done as “subscribe to folders” is 
> currently handled. User sees the list of public folders there and can 
> check/uncheck them to mark/unmark them as favourite folders. This would 
> be another menu item.

Is there any particular reason that this can't just be done through the
current "Subscribe to Folders" interface? I would greatly prefer
minimizing the possibility of new menu items. It's already large as it
is, and plug-ins don't really help the matter. :)

-- dobey