Re: [Evolution-hackers] Compose should follow Dialog HIG (re location of Send button)

[Jeffrey Stedfast <fejj novell com>]

On Mon, 2005-07-25 at 16:41 +1000, Nigel Tao wrote:
> On Sat, 2005-07-23 at 13:58 -0400, Rodney Dawes wrote:
> > The Compose windows is NOT a dialog. Conceptually or in practice. It has
> > menus. It has toolbars. It has Minimize/Maximize icons. It is a window.
> > I don't know what the sound juicer UI is like, but the Compose window in
> > Evolution is not a dialog. Please do not try to make it act like one.
> 
> Those are fair points - you would want the compose window to show up in
> the window list, for example.
> 
> Maybe I should have said "dialog-like" rather than "dialog".  My
> argument is that, unlike e.g. an office document, the compose window
> doesn't live for a long amount of time - I click compose or reply, type
> my thing, and then fire it off.

remember that your usage may be different from others

>   And, more importantly, my workflow runs
> top to bottom - I enter in the To field, then move down to the Subject
> field, and then move down to the body.  To finish it off, I hit the Send
> button.  The GNOME HIG recommends that the "affirmative button" or "the
> last thing that you do" is in the bottom right because the eyes start at
> the top left and scans down and right, ending at the bottom right.  That
> is why GNOME's OK and Cancel buttons are in a different order than
> Windows (ignoring the separate issue that GNOME tends to auto-apply and
> hence uses Close rather than OK).
> 
> Just my two cents.
> 
> Thanks,
> Nigel.
> 
> P.S.  A somewhat out-of-date SoundJuicer screenshot is at
> http://www.burtonini.com/computing/screenshots/sj-main.png
> This is an application (and it has a menu bar), but it has dialog-like
> one-shot (insert CD, launch SJ, do a small amount of editing (if any),
> and hit the fire button) top-to-bottom workflow.
> 
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