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

["Sankar P" <psankar novell com>]

On Sun, 2007-04-22 at 17:37 -0500, Matthew Martin wrote:
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> 
> 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. 

This should ideally come as an e-table column, just like sender, from,
subject etc.

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Sankar