Re: Some proposals or the 1.3 cycle

[Ali Akcaagac <ali akcaagac stud fh-wilhelmshaven de>]

On 2001.10.06 11:52:20 +0200 Steffen Klemer wrote:
> * perhaps the compose window could show the subject of the composing mail
> as the windwo-name (to the wm), know what I mean?

this will cause a lot of problems with recent window managers. e.g. sawfish
because it needs the correct title as information for its placement. now
that you use different subjects as titlename then your compose window will
popup somewhere in the window and you need to force a new placement to keep
the compose window where you want it to be.

another problem would be if you have sawfish allowed to save all settings
automatically your ~./sawfish/window-history file will become larger than
shit in some months.. :) because it saves new window attributes everytime
you compose a new email with a different windowname. but i may be wrong.

> * perhaps a backend that you can use the evolution adressbook?

this causes a big problem.

we need to include another library berkley-db now thats not the deal a
bigger problem is that berkley has released different versions of their
database that also has different structures. now we need to enforce that
we need an exactly specific berkley library version but many of us have
different versions installed and this ends up in having incompatible
structures. some people complained about this in #evolution and in #gnome
already... but imo balsa should be as light as possible... the correct way
thats why i think balsa is so successfull people like light simple easy
tools.. i use it together with gnome-pim and its a perfect companion to
balsa. i think nowadays gnome developers loosing this point out of mind
they code like hell and the result is something that only the developer
loves :)

> * the customice window should look a little bit more like the galeon one
> (because a think it looks a litle bit clearer and because of the "same look
> and feel"- yes we could ask the galeon people to change their window but I
> like the galeon one mor... :-)

yeah this means we need to embedd more libraries into balsa e.g. eel and
other nice stuff. we end up in evolution then :)

> * (in the main window) a new row: marked mail? (like new? and atachment?)
> and the order of the rows should be editable

i was thinking about that one myself. something i would like to see is to
add an '^' or 'v' arrow like in evolution or in firestarter which shows in
what direction the sort goes this also signals us what exactly is beeing
sorted etc.. and saving that would be nice too.

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