Re: [Evolution-hackers] Thinking about menus

[Christine McLellan <christine novell com>]

Hey Ben -- More feedback, this time just a few comments on the proposed Message menu:

Message / Reply -- I believe this should stay "Reply to All" to be really clear.  The icons can be too small to quickly know which item is which and mistakenly choose Reply to All when you meant just to reply to a Sender could be a tad dangerous :).  

Message / Reply to Author -- I would keep "Reply to Sender" to be more consistent w/ other mail apps (and as result more familiar).  If this is simply a forwarded message, who is the actual author? Not trying to be a brat, but I can really imagine Author being confusing.  

What happened to Forward As>Attached, Quoted, Inline?  The flexibility of choosing how to forward a particular message is something I probably use once a week?

Thanks
-Christine

On Mon, 2005-01-10 at 12:25 -0500, Benjamin Kahn wrote:
> With Evolution 2.2 fast approaching with a new plugin architecture, I
> (along with Rodney and a bunch of other people) have been looking at the
> Evolution menus.  
>
> We've started with with the mailer context menus and the main mailer
> menus.  This is needed because the current menus are a discouraging mess
> and with menu merging from plugins, things are only going to get
> worse.  
>
> The goals are:
>
>       * Get rid of the Actions menu.
>       * Make it obvious where to find things.  (Eliminate seeking as
>         much as possible)
>       * Make common operations available without using submenus.
>       * Move closer to the HIG recommendations.
>         ( http://developer.gnome.org/projects/gup/hig/2.0/menus-standard.html )
>       * Provide a good structure for plugins to add new menu items.
>       * Umm...  And simplicity.  
>
> I've posted screenshots of the effort to the Evolution Blog:
> http://codeblogs.ximian.com/blogs/evolution/archives/000441.html
>
> The latest version of the glade mockup is here: (I'll try to keep this
> current)
> http://primates.ximian.com/~xkahn/evo-menus/evo-menus.tar.gz
> NOTE: Evolution does not use glade to create menus.  This is simply a
> mockup.  It will never be the official version.)
>
> I am generating a patch for Evolution that uses the new menus.  I'm
> about 50% done.
>
> And, obviously, a similar layout needs to be designed for the other
> components.  
>
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