Re: [Evolution-hackers] No "Reply All" for Evolution (3) ?

[Srinivasa Ragavan <sragavan novell com>]

Hi Martin,

On Fri, 2007-06-22 at 07:13 +0200, Martin Jeppesen wrote:
> Hi
> 
> Many novice users don't understand the Reply and Reply All buttons, so they
> often pick one at random or always use just one of them. Just think of people
> that reply to chain letters.
> 

I haven't heard of the before really. 

> A solution to this could be to remove the Reply All button from the main
> toolbar and have only one send button like now, but the user is presented with
> a list of the recipients if there are more than one.

Believe me, majority of the users prefer avoid too many questions and
dialogs before any operations they requested. Especially if one has to
fill up such a dialog before start replying to an email, many may not
prefer to hit a reply at all ;-). 

-Srini.

> A mock up of this could be:
> 
> 
>  --------------------------------------------------------------------
> |                                                                    |
> | The email that you are about to send have more than one recipient. |
> | Please choose who shall receive this email.                        |
> |    _                                                               |
> |   |v| Elvis Presley (elvis presley com)                            |
> |    _                                                               |
> |   |v| Bob Dylan (bob dylan com)                                    |
> |    _                                                               |
> |   |_| Leonard Cohen (leonard cohan com)                            |
> |    _                                                               |
> |   |_| Alan Stivell (alan stivell com)                              |
> |    _                                                               |
> |   |v| Nick Cave (nick cave com)                                    |
> |                                                                    |
> |                                        [Return to composer] [Send] |
> |____________________________________________________________________|
> 
> 
> or
> 
>  --------------------------------------------------------------------
> |                                                                    |
> | The email that you are about to send have more than one recipient. |
> | Please choose who shall receive this email.                        |
> |                                                                    |
> |  To CC  BCC None                                                   |
> |  _   _   _   _                                                     |
> | (o) (_) (_) (_)  Elvis Presley (elvis presley com)                 |
> |  _   _   _   _                                                     |
> | (_) (o) (_) (_)  Bob Dylan (bob dylan com)                         |
> |  _   _   _   _                                                     |
> | (_) (_) (_) (o)  Leonard Cohen (leonard cohan com)                 |
> |  _   _   _   _                                                     |
> | (_) (_) (_) (o)  Alan Stivell (alan stivell com)                   |
> |  _   _   _   _                                                     |
> | (_) (o) (_) (_)  Nick Cave (nick cave com)                         |
> |                                                                    |
> |                                        [Return to composer] [Send] |
> |____________________________________________________________________|
> 
> The benefit of this idea is that is no longer need to a Reply All button.
> 
> It could be made into a complete recipient chooser if it is combined with the
> address book.
> 
> So sending an email would have these 3 steps:
> 1. Press Reply
> 2. Write email
> 3. Choose recipient(s)
> 
> 
> What do you think?
> 
> Martin
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