Re: [Evolution] Things I'd like to see (and implement)

[Shane Landrum <srl localjoe org>]

On 02 Feb 2001 11:07:07 +0000, Calum Benson wrote:
> I second this :)  I've bitten my tongue so far to see if anybody else
> was ever going to mention it, but I don't think "expunge" is the sort of
> word you should be using in a user interface for the masses either.  I
> don't know what the best alternative is; maybe cleaning up your mailbox,
> or compacting it, or compressing it, or optimising it, or 
> shredding/permanently deleting unwanted mails from it... but not
> 'expunging' things from it.

I like the phrase "shred deleted messages", personally. But I'm not sure
how well that phrase would work with Nautilus.

> As a sort of aside, since they're supposed to play nicely together on
> the GNOME desktop, Evo and Nautilus should ideally share the same
> terminology and metaphor for deleting things and emptying trash, as far
> as possible (although Nautlius doesn't require the additional 'expunge'
> step)-- not that I'm saying Nautilus is perfect in that regard just now
> either, but it would be good if they met in the middle.  (For example,
> Nautilus only ever explicitly presents the option of "Moving files to
> the Trash", not "deleting" them.)  Achieving this sort of consistent
> user experience between the apps is what will eventually turn a nice
> desktop environment into a killer one.

Agreed. Is there a GNOME UI standard, like the Macintosh Human Interface
Guidellines?

By the way, I've just installed the CVS snapshot 01/29/00 on Debian, and
I'm impressed even more than I was on 0.8. There are still some oddities
in the message composer that seem weird to me. 

For example, I'm much more comfortable with a cursor that focuses first
on the message body, and Evo doesn't do this. Also, when I reply to a
message and snip quoted text using the backspace character, the display
of that text changes from Courier to proportional text, and Evo seems to
insert a blank line within the quoted text. It's rather unnerving. 

srl

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Shane Landrum -- srl AT localjoe DITTO org