Re: [Evolution-hackers] Re: Attachment UI Improvements

[Not Zed <notzed ximian com>]

On Thu, 2005-05-05 at 16:19 -0400, Rodney Dawes wrote:
> On Thu, 2005-05-05 at 16:01 -0400, Nat Friedman wrote:
> > Another thing which Rodney did not mention is that the text in the
> > attachment bar needs to be changed.  Currently it says "<b>1</b> File
> > Attached" when a file is attached.  Sometimes attachments are not files,
> > however, as when I forward a mail to someone.  
> > 
> > The attachment zone header should say "<b>1</b> Attachment" instead.
>
> Actually, I think it would be better if we just got rid of the expander.
> If the attachment area is always in view when there are attachments,
> there is no real need to replicate this data with a visible label. For
> purposes of accessibility, we can set an internal label for ATK to use,
> for screen readers and the like.

The expander takes a huge amount of screenspace up on a window which is already hugely wasteful of space.

Even on my 1440xxxx laptop with the right dpi set it takes up an inordinate amount of space so I would normally not show it.

The reason we can't drop into the main view is multi-fold.  One, there is a mixing of semantics of what a drop means in a text area.  But of course the other thing is bonobo - we simple cannot access the required information from the editor component.

> > Another issue that we've seen in some of our usability tests here is
> > that people are confused by the file selector in the context of
> > attaching a file to a mail they are composing.  
> > 
> > First they click the 'Attach' button in the composer's toolbar, then
> > select a file using the file selector.  Then, they hit the '+' button in
> > the file selector to add the attachment to the mail.  Of course, this
> > button is for adding bookmarks to the file selector, not for adding
> > attachments to mails.

> > It would help if the button in the file selector said "Attach" instead
> > of "Open," and if the icon were attachment-appropriate.
>
> I actually have a patch for this. I forgot about it, and it is included
> in the latest version of the mailer menus redux patch that I just sent
> to the list. I'm not sure what the current state of the evolution tree
> is for being able to commit things, given the maintainership changes.
> If it is open for me to commit though, I am glad to do that. :)
>
> > >   - Use attachment icon list area for display instead of buttons
> > 
> > This will require that we add a "Save attachment" menu item to the
> > right-click menu on the attachment area.
>
> The context-menu for the mail display will have to be entirely different
> than it is for the composer attachment area, anyway. We will probably
> want to have "Open with..." and other such menu items as well.

What is this?  The display of attachments in the mail display???

Where is the original email that started this discussion?

Also note that "save all attacments" is just a hacked up plugin demonstration.