Re: [evolution-patches] Fix to resize the composer attachment bar

[Srinivasa Ragavan <sragavan novell com>]

On Fri, 2005-06-10 at 09:30 -0400, Jeffrey Stedfast wrote:
> On Fri, 2005-06-10 at 00:56 -0400, Lee Revell wrote:
> > On Fri, 2005-06-10 at 09:51 +0530, Srinivasa Ragavan wrote:
> > > On Fri, 2005-06-10 at 09:12 +0800, Not Zed wrote:
> > > > I have to agree.  It seems to be a completely sub-optimal solution to
> > > > the problem.
> > > > 
> > > > First, force the attachment bar to be open all the time, removing a
> > > > useful and common trick of having a collapser (a favourite on mac i
> > > > might add, which we seem to be religiously copying in gnome).  Then find
> > > > 'oh dear, this takes up too much space', so hack in a very crappy
> > > > solution of letting the user re-size the bar - which given how big and
> > > > silly the icons are will make it unusable unless it is full size anyway.
> > > 
> > > I feel that its better to have a soln of resize instead of show/hide
> > > mode. I guess most mail clients work that way. Mac, has a total
> > > different expander, which doesnt even has a scrolled window inside it.
> > 
> > Why does the attachment pane need to be separate from the message body,
> > rather than showing the attachments at the end of the message?
> 
> the biggest reason would be that gtkhtml's editor doesn't support this
> and I'd bet it wouldn't be trivial to add either.
> 
> also, the editor should strive to be WYSIWYG, which this idea would not
> really support...
> 
> I also wonder if it wouldn't be more confusing to the user than the
> attachment bar anyway since the editor would constantly have to prevent
> the user from typing below the attachments (if it was all just in the
> text editor widget, what would hint to the user that he couldn't type
> below the attachment icons?). Maybe I'm just visualising your suggestion
> incorrectly...
> 
Fejj, i agree with you, it might be confusing and really obstructing.
Mac does it this way and i struggled using it, when i was trying out
various mail clients.

> >   This
> > way, you could just backspace over the icon to delete the attachment,
> > and dnd into the message body to attach.
> 
> nice idea but I don't think it would work in practice (not to mention
> non-trivial)
> 
> if the attachments are always going to be at the bottom anyway, it seems
> easier to just use the current attachment bar.
> 
> the only problem we really need to solve here is making it so that the
> user can drop the attachment he wants to add anywhere on the composer
> window and have it be attached.
> 
> there's no real need to change the attachment bar ui from the way it was
> in 2.2 afaict (I certainly don't seem to recall seeing any bugs reported
> about wanting to be able to resize it or anything else)
> I'm not necessarily against adding the ability to resize the attachment
> bar, but we should definitely go back to having the expander I think -
> if we then add the resize ability, we should probably make it such that
> you couldn't resize to smaller than what is needed to display a single
> row of attachment icons.
Initially, it was like, u have to expand to DnD attachment, which was
difficult. but now thatz fixed. You drop any where, it attaches.Probably
we can propose to bring it again. But resize definitely as some
advantages. But im not sure, whether we can make it like dont resize
beyond a size. If so i would definetely love to do.

> Jeff
>