Re: [Evolution-hackers] Re: UI changes for exchange

[David Malcolm <dmalcolm redhat com>]

On Fri, 2005-04-29 at 14:25 -0400, Rodney Dawes wrote: 
> On Thu, 2005-04-28 at 18:29 +0530, Sarfraaz Ahmed wrote:
> > 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 ? ]
> 
> I'm strongly against context sensitive main menus. They shouldn't hide
> and show menu items depending on account.

Radical idea: how about having "Folder" and "Email" top-level menus in
the Mail component? (with corresponding "Addressbook" and "Contact" in
the Addressbook component etc).  Then most of the context-sensitive
thing could go here.

> 
> > 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.
> 
> Is there any particular reason that this can't just be done through the
> current "Subscribe to Folders" interface? I would greatly prefer
> minimizing the possibility of new menu items. It's already large as it
> is, and plug-ins don't really help the matter. :)
> 
> -- dobey
> 
> 
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