RE: Mailboxes behaviour

[Stuart Parmenter <pavlov innerx net>]

Certain things like this would require balsa to open all the mailboxes
previous to starting (and/or while starting).  This would simply take
forever to do, espically if your mailboxes are over NFS and you have
hundreds of them totaling to something around 300mb or so (you get my
point).  I don't overly care for the tabs, but they make navigating the
opened mailboxes a bit easier.  Having the tabs at the top may not be the
best way to do it either.  I would personally like them better at the
bottom (this isn't a hard change) in a more button-like appearance instead
of in a notebook.  The code to make this work nicely wouldn't be too
difficult.  It would simply require a notebook without tabs, then have
buttons created/destroyed with signals to change mailboxes when they are
clicked on.  this would allow for more control over the way you change them
as well.  It is currently a pain to attach popup menus to notebook tabs,
but it would be very easy with buttons.

just some thoughts.  I will go through all the stuff thats come along this
list tonight/tomorrow and start making some things move.



At 03:44 PM 4/9/99 -0700, Fox, Kevin M wrote:
>If this is the case, there is something else to consider:
>Do we need the bars on the sides? Would it be better to just have all the
>tabs up to begin with?
>They could me made to order and put an icon on each tab...
>just some food for thaught....
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From:	Richard Hult [SMTP:rhult@hem2.passagen.se]
>> Sent:	Friday, April 09, 1999 3:40 PM
>> To:	Fox, Kevin M; 'Jesse D . Sightler'; 'balsa-list@gnome.org'
>> Subject:	RE: Mailboxes behaviour
>> 
>> 
>> >I think it works this way because it loads tabs for each thing.. If you
>> >notice, there are tabs up at the top when you open more then one box.
>> then
>> >if you want to change, you just click on a tab.... 
>> >I dont know if this is the best way of doing it thow....
>> 
>> I just think it's a bit weird that you have two ways of bringing a mailbox
>> up. The first time you have to double-click the tree, then after that you
>> can either click the tab or double-click the tree.
>> 
>> If you want to close a box, you have to use the tree.
>> 
>> I would remove the tabs altogether if I was in charge... Personally I
>> think
>> it would be most easy to use if you just needed to click on the tree once
>> to bring up a certain mailbox.
>> 
>> The problem with the tabs is that they are not ordered like the ones in
>> the
>> tree. The tree is always the same and you can open the right mailbox with
>> your eyes closed (almost, but you get my point :). It's simply so much
>> more
>> easy to navigate around a tree than the tabs. All IMHO of course.
>> 
>> Richard
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