Re: [Evolution-hackers] Where to put UI items for templates (Bug #127529)
- From: "Sankar P" <psankar novell com>
- To: <mtt martin gmail com>
- Cc: evolution-hackers gnome org
- Subject: Re: [Evolution-hackers] Where to put UI items for templates (Bug #127529)
- Date: Mon, 23 Apr 2007 02:11:49 -0600
On Sun, 2007-04-22 at 17:37 -0500, Matthew Martin wrote:
>
>
> 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.
>
>
> <snip>
>
>
--
Sankar
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