[Evolution-hackers] UI changes for exchange

[Sarfraaz Ahmed <asarfraaz novell com>]

Hi,

There has been strong user feedback that having an exchange component to 
perform all exchange specific operations is not very intuitive and not 
very user friendly. Favourite folder handling is especially very 
difficult to apprehend. Here are some suggestions to make this user 
interface a bit easier for exchange.

The requirements can be summarised as :
1. Users should be able to perform exchange specific operations [ viz., 
Change exchange password, subscribe/unsubscribe folders, Folder Size, 
Out of office, Delegation, folder permissions, add to favourites ] from 
any evolution component seamlessly.
2. There should be an easy way for the user to view all the public 
folders and mark/unmark them as favourites.

Solutions :
1. For the exchange specific operations, we would have menu items in all 
components. We can have an account specific menu item, which would be 
present only when a particular account type is enabled. This menu item 
would have a list of sub-items which would actually be the tasks. [ 
Guess, there is already some thought on these lines ? ]
2. Favourite folder management can be done as “subscribe to folders” is 
currently handled. User sees the list of public folders there and can 
check/uncheck them to mark/unmark them as favourite folders. This would 
be another menu item.

Please let me know your suggestions for these. We could take these as 
requirements for the new menu layout work being done.

Thanks
--Sarfraaz