Re: [Evolution-hackers] Send/Receive in the Toolbar

[Rodney Dawes <dobey novell com>]

The tests were actually to create a new mail. "Send this file to person
foo bar com". People would click on Send/Receive thinking that was how
you "sent mail" to people. They were expecting the composer window to
pop up, so that they could send mail.

-- dobey


On Fri, 2005-08-05 at 12:47 +0100, Calum Benson wrote:
> On Fri, 2005-08-05 at 12:40 +0100, Calum Benson wrote:
> > On Thu, 2005-08-04 at 19:12 +0800, Not Zed wrote:
> > 
> > > If the problem was demonstrated 'prominently' in usability tests at
> > > guadec, why on earth is it only being raised now?
> > 
> > And presumably during those usability tests, somebody asked those users
> > what they might expect a button that sends and receives email to say
> > instead?  What did *they* suggest?
> 
> (Hopefully you also found out how many of them ever used it anyway, come
> to think of it... I suspect sending/receiving is handled automatically
> for most people most of the time, so maybe it doesn't even need to be on
> the already-overcrowded toolbar at all...?)
> 
> Cheeri,
> Calum.
>