Re: Shortcut bar: was (Re: [Evolution] Evo 2.0 UI - Requests/comments)

["Michael J. Rensing" <michael rensing shaw ca>]

I LIKE it!

Michael

On Mon, 2003-07-14 at 09:36, Mike Kestner wrote:
> On Mon, 2003-07-14 at 10:51, Michael J. Rensing wrote:
>
> > 3) When discussing the pros and cons of features such as the Shortcuts,
> > I can't help thinking that there are probably as many users who want a
> > feature as who feel that it is unnecessary. Can't such items continue to
> > be configurable options? For example, I can hide the Shortcut bar and/or
> > the Folder tree and not use them if I don't like them. However, if I
> > want them, I simply make them visible. Seems to me from the user point
> > of view that this is the best of both worlds.
>
> The problem is the maintenance overhead.  Shortcut bar had to be ported
> to the Gtk2 platform for the 1.4 release.  The initial port had drag and
> drop inoperative, among other things.  At one point, shortcut bar led
> the 1.4 bug count for gal.  
>
> So while keeping it around seems like a "best of both worlds" scenario,
> it is instead a time drainer that keeps us from dedicating development
> effort toward supporting other features.  AFAICT, the shortcut bar
> provides no functionality that couldn't be provided by other
> planned/existing UI elements.  I think we just need to identify the use
> cases and work to support them with the other UI elements.
-- 
Michael Rensing