Re: [Evolution] CVS Evolution: Mac-like interface

[Anna Marie Dirks <anna ximian com>]

Look. 

The current incarnation of the "opened message" gui is the result of a
miscommunication between developers No one here intends to release
evolution that way, we all know about the problem. Really. 

You guys should know when you run the UNSTABLE version of Evolution that
you are liable to be exposed to all of our quirks before we iron them
out. 

-Anna.


Il mer, 2002-05-22 alle 20:24, Not Zed ha scritto:
> Ahah!  Yes that is exactly it.
>
> You mac loving GUI designers please take note ... without the global
> context-sensitive menu bar (which personally I think is a great idea,
> AmigaOS had one too) you need to chuck on menu bars (and these days tool
> bars) and other crap which clutter the ui, but is still necessary,
> otherwise you end up with a non-functional app that is hard to use (even
> if its 'simple').
>
> On Thu, 2002-05-23 at 00:09, Ujwal S. Sathyam wrote:
> > Actually, I have been a Mac user for years, and the user interface 
> > has worked for me nicely all along.
> >
> > What is missing in Evolution attempts to mimic the Mac interface is 
> > that there is no global application-specific menu bar that all the 
> > application windows can share. If that were there, this approach 
> > would work. However, the Linux GUIs currently do not support that.
> >
> > Ujwal
> >
> >
> >
> > At 1:31 PM +0300 5/22/02, Martin-Éric Racine wrote:
> > > No need to.  Just roll back CVs to where it was for the required 
> > > files and wake
> > > up to the fact that not everything Mac does is the right thing to do, however
> > > cute and apparently user-friendly it might be. ,-)
> > >
> > > On 21 May 2002, Jeffrey Stedfast wrote:
> > > >  You're free to submit a patch :-)
> > >
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> > > Martin-Éric Racine, Helsinki, Finland.
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> > > +358 41 474 0289
> > >
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