Re: [Evolution-hackers] Where to put UI items for templates (Bug #127529)

["Matthew Martin" <mtt martin gmail com>]

On 2/22/07, Sankar P <psankar novell com> wrote:

> >
> > - You need to add a view-column, "Template name" that will be available
> > for the Templates folder (only).  All messages stored as templates
> > should have a name associated to identify the message-template. It is
> > far more usable to read, "Status Report", "Release Announcement Mail",
> > "String Announcement Mail", "ABI Break announcement ;-)" etc., rather
> > than opening every mail and seeing, "Is this what I want to send now ?"
> >
> Shouldn't this act just like drafts?  Where are we going to get this
> template name? Would this even be all that useful?

It will be.

On a longer run, we are planning to have pre-defined templates as well.
A name for a template is always more useful than looking at the mail and
knowing. Some people do not even enable Message-Preview. And think how
useful a name for the template will be.

Consider the scenario when a new employee joins an office and the moment
he opens his Evolution, he can send things like Minutes-of-the-meeting,
Status-report, Meeting-agenda, Leave-letters in the company-prescribed
format. These standard templates will be pushed to his machine when the
machine was prepared for him. You can ask for the name of the template
once the user chooses, "Save as template".

    Where should the name be stored? This is also not listed on the bounty.

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