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

[msevior physics unimelb edu au]

> 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.
>

This is far from the hardest problem Novice users face with evolution.

The worst problem is their ability to turn off the message preview window
by accidently clicking the check box or by resizing it to zero.

I've had to to fix my mother's evo several times because this behaviour.

On the other hand having both reply and reply-all is very useful to me and
I would seriously consider switching to a different mail system if I had
to hunt through menus for reply all.

Cheers

Martin


> 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.
>
> 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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