Re: [Evolution] Re: Accessing other users Exchange calendars

[Sushma Rai <rsushma novell com>]

We are looking at removing the exchange button, as
it is not very intuitive. 
With that I guess things should become more clear.

Thanks,
Sushma.


On Mon, 2004-12-13 at 15:11, Bryan Cole wrote:
> On Sat, 11 Dec 2004 10:16:07 +0530, Sushma Rai wrote:
>
> > Exchange connector supports viewing other user's folders, of all types.
> >
> > You need to go to Exchange view and subscribe to other user's folder
> > (Actions -> subscribe to other user's folder), then go to the particular
> > view
> > to access the folder you have subscribed to.
>
> Ha! This works great! Thanks for that info. Easy when you know how.
>
> I do think that the "magic morphing Actions menu" is a human-interface
> design faux-pas. Menu's that contain different things under different
> circumstances are unintuitive and confusing (popup windows avoid this as
> the context is given by the selected item). The "Subscribe
> to others folder" feature was not intuitive for me to find at all (maybe
> I'm just dumb...). It would have been better (IHMO) if the Actions menu
> was re-named "Mail Actions"/"Calendar Actions"/"Exchange Actions" etc. as
> appropriate, to indicate that it's content may change depending on what
> application one is using. This is all very subjective though ...
>
> Otherwise, Evolution is *very* impressive. Thanks to the developers for
> sparing me the pain of using win32/Outlook at my workplace.
>
> BC
>
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