Re: [Evolution-hackers] Addressbook UI thoughts

[Rodrigo Moya <rodrigo ximian com>]

On Mon, 2003-12-08 at 12:28, Tuomas Kuosmanen wrote:
> Howdy.
> 
> I was thinking of the addressbook ui, and the two-pane idea is nice, so
> you dont need the dialog to edit stuff, when we implement inline editing
> for the preview stuff (is that possible? I'd like to have that)
> 
> Anyway, the horizontally split view is a bit cumbersome - of course you
> see all the columns, but then again that is not really a big deal since
> you can see all the data on the addressbook view pane anyway. The
> drawback is that you need to scroll a lot to view the list. 
> 
> So I was thinking whether it would make sense to have this with a
> vertical split pane? So that you can have just the "File As" -column
> list on the left and clicking a name will open that address in the
> preview/edit pane.
> 
> http://primates.ximian.com/~tigert/evo/evo-mock-addressbook-vpaned.png
> 
note that this could be also interesting for the tasks and mail, so we
could probably write a widget that contains a vpaned/hpaned depending on
a setting, to be used by addressbook, tasks and mail.

cheers