Re: Find mailbox by name considered harmful
- From: Peter Bloomfield <PeterBloomfield MindSpring com>
- To: balsa-list gnome org
- Subject: Re: Find mailbox by name considered harmful
- Date: Thu, 6 Jun 2002 23:13:17 -0400
On 2002.06.05 06:41 M. Thielker wrote:
> On 2002.06.05 12:21 Peter Bloomfield wrote:
>
>> Balsa needs a simple widget that allows the user to choose a mailbox
>> from a list of `most recently used', with the option of displaying
>> the whole mailbox tree if the desired choice isn't on the list. One
>> plausible
> [...]
>> with this need. It could also be used in a new dialog replacing the
>> submenu on the BalsaIndex context menu--popup menus with submenus
>> are frowned upon by the Human Interface Guidelines:
>>
>> http://developer.gnome.org/projects/gup/hig/draft_hig/menus.html#menu-types
>>
>> Comments?
>
> Yes. I do not think that a "Move" dialog is a GoodThing. It would
> mean a right click, drag-left click move leftclick move leftclick
> move leftclick sequence to replace a rightclick drag leftclick
> sequence to accomplish the same thing.
>
> Selection an option from a 2-level submenu is much less tedious then
> selecting an option from a sinple context menu, operating a dialog
> control that basically functions as the second menu level did, then
> dismissing the dialog.
>
> I use this "Move" submenu extensively - I should, I wrote it :) - and
> I would miss it very much.
> Another thing to think about is that MRU1 != MRU2. Meaning, I don't
> need mailboxes used in some other function to appear on the MRU for
> "Move".
>
> Melanie
A patch for the BALSA_2 cvs branch that implements the new widget may
be found at
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=84220
The patch leaves the current (Balsa-2) transfer-message functionality
(in balsa-index.c and message-window.c) intact, but consolidates the
code in balsa-mblist.c. It also defines the GtkOptionMenu widget, and
uses it to fix the vulnerability of the fcc_box code to non-unique
mailbox names, and adds the option of selecting an fcc_box anywhere in
the mailbox tree.
I'm working on back-porting the changes to the HEAD branch--patch to
follow in a few days. The new widget should also fit in well with the
filter code, with a little tweaking--also to follow.
Peter
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