Re: [Evolution] Arguments against the outlook bar

["R. Russell Geldmacher" <rusty WPI EDU>]

hi guys,
I agree that the shortcut bar really isn't the best way to navigate your
way through the program.  But on the other hand, the folder bar isn't as
slick looking as the shortcut bar. what whould be nice is to make it look
like the navigation in the gnome control center. That is a really nice way
to present a heirarchy and not make it look to a novice user like a file
system.

rusty

On 18 Oct 2000, Gregory Leblanc wrote:

> After a that brief message the other day from Fejj and myself arguing
> against the shortcut bar, I felt that it was time to provide some more
> concrete arguments against it.  I've been working with a few other
> people to come up with some convincing reasons to get rid of it, or at
> least take it out of the default view.  
> The first thing that comes to mind is the blatant theft of the design of
> Microsoft Outlook, but that doesn't seem to carry a lot of weight, so we
> had to do better.
> The shortcut bar hides a lot of the better functionality that is
> available in Evolution, as many people will not go digging through the
> menus.  The folder bar gives them an immediate view with not only their
> mail related folders (inbox, outbox, sent items, and drafts), but it
> also gives them a view onto white pages/directories, and vfolders.  The
> latter is one of the revolutionary features in Evolution, and making
> them visible from the moment that someone starts using Evolution is
> important.  
> The folder vew is used when creating folders, and when moving and
> copying messages, and probably for all similar actions (I haven't
> looked, yet).  This could be very confusing for a new user.  J Newbie
> decides to create a new folder to store the messages (s)he wants to keep
> from the GNOME list.  When (s)he goes to create the new folder, (s)he
> sees this heirarchy that's never been visible before.  (S)He thinks, "Oh
> My!  What do I do here?" because they've never seen the heirarchy in
> email before.  
> For expienced users, they're already familar with looking at filesystems
> and other data as a heirarchy.  Giving them a heirarchy from the get-go
> will allow them to migrate from their other mail clients more
> easily.  With a heirarchial view, it's also easier to form groups of
> folders, say a top folder for GNOME, with sub-folders for gnome-list,
> gnome-devel, gnome-doc, i18n gnome org, etc.
> Thanks,
>
>     Greg
>
> Any weird characters in this message are the fault of Evolution, not
> me.  Really.  :-)
>
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