Re: [Evolution-hackers] spam filtering
- From: Radek Doulík <rodo ximian com>
- To: Anna Marie Dirks <anna ximian com>
- Cc: Mark Gordon <mtgordon ximian com>, Evolution Hackers Mailing List <evolution-hackers ximian com>
- Subject: Re: [Evolution-hackers] spam filtering
- Date: Thu, 02 Oct 2003 18:28:33 +0200
On Thu, 2003-10-02 at 18:20, Anna Marie Dirks wrote:
> Hi there, Radek.
>
> Yes, I would add an item to the context menu as well. Here's why:
>
> 1. There are people, especially those who are accustomed to using
> Windows systems, who take great comfort in the presence of a
> context menu. If you ever watch Keelyn or Clara (both of whom
> are very experienced Windows users) use Evolution, you'll find
> that they constantly right-click on messages, because they think
> of this as being the quickest and easiest way to understand what
> the options related to a given message are. People have as many
> different ways of filing their email as they do of tying their
> shoes. :) Our job is to accomodate them (as is practical given
> our available resources), not to pass judgment on the relative
> value of their patterns.
> 2. The context menu gives the impression of containing a complete
> list of the actions available for a given message. To omit this
> command would be to sacrifice the integrity of the context menu.
> (Because one couldn't rely on the context menu for a complete
> list of one's options anymore.) Doubt! Despair! Dejection!
>
> Does that make sense?
Yeah, thanks for your explanation. Context menu (instead of term "popup
menu" I used) is already pretty self explaining. I missed that in Mark's
mail.
Cheers
Radek
>
> best,
> Anna
>
> On Thu, 2003-10-02 at 08:02, Radek Doulík wrote:
> > On Wed, 2003-10-01 at 22:32, Anna Marie Dirks wrote:
> > > Yes, a keyboard shortcut would be good.
> > >
> > > We are going to need to redo the menus a bit for 2.0. They are currently
> > > badly organized, and full of cruft. When I am preparing the menu spec
> > > for 2.0, I will include a proposed keybinding for this.. I can't hope to
> > > tell you off the top of my head which letters will be available at that
> > > time, though. :)
> >
> > do you think it's also necessary to have [No]Spam in popup menu? I think
> > when it's already available on toolbar and in menu there's no reason to
> > have it in popup as well - it easier reachable by mouse on toolbar (one
> > click)
> >
> > cheers
> > Radek
> >
> > >
> > > cheers,
> > > Anna
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > On Wed, 2003-10-01 at 16:16, Mark Gordon wrote:
> > > > On Wed, 2003-10-01 at 12:27, Radek Doulík wrote:
> > > >
> > > > > * new [No]Spam button on toolbar and item in menubar
> > > > > Actions/[No]Spam. when message was identified as Spam,
> > > > > button/item says NoSpam to revive the message from Spam folder
> > > > > (spam flag is set to false and incoming message filters are
> > > > > applied). For nospam messages it says spam to mark message as
> > > > > Spam (spam flag is set to true and message is moved to Spam
> > > > > folder).
> > > >
> > > > It would probably be good to have this in a context (right-click) menu
> > > > as well. A keyboard shortcut might not be a bad idea, though I'm not
> > > > completely sure what key combination I'd want to assign to it. Anna?
> > > >
> > > > -Mark Gordon
> > > >
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