Re: [Evolution-hackers] Addressbook UI thoughts

[Not Zed <notzed ximian com>]

On Tue, 2003-12-09 at 00:52, Tuomas Kuosmanen wrote:
> On Mon, 2003-12-08 at 14:06, Ross Burton wrote:
> > I actually really like this.  I will however point out that the Video
> > Conference field has popped up again, and is not supported by the
> > VContact object.  Should I file a bug to get this added for Evo2?
>
> That is another thing, ignore it for this mockup, I just cut and pasted
> some pixels from the old addressbook mockup :-) The paned thingy is the
> point.
>
> I talked with Rodrigo and he said there were talks about a "switchable"
> paned widget for this, which could be useful for mail and tasks as well.
> So the user could "switch" it from horizontal to vertical at will. It
> would be very useful for mail as well. For a lot of things there is more
> than enough of horizontal space but vertical space is very limited.
> Having stuff like Gnome panels and menubar on top and bottom of the
> screen is not helpful.
>
> So a side-by-side view of for example mail would be rather useful: You'd
> get a message list on the left (it could even do multiline:
>
> ----------------------------------------------------
> Subject: *Hey check this out!* (bigger font)
> From: Foo Bar                            Today, 9am (small font)
> ----------------------------------------------------
> Subject: *New meeting agenda*
> From: Tuomas Kuosmanen                   Today, 11am
> ----------------------------------------------------
> Subject: *Gnome.org mailing list reminder*
> From: Gnome List Manager                 Today, 9am
> ----------------------------------------------------
Except etable wont do this without some probably significant work.

> And on the right side you'd get the current mail view, with the full
> headers and stuff if you want to see them. The mail would be more of the
> shape of a natural paper sheet and there would be more space vertically.
> Stuff is easier to read narrow-and-tall anyway.
>
> Tuomas
>
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