Re: [evolution-patches] Revised mailing list actions plugin

[Not Zed <notzed ximian com>]

I've now committed it as at this version.  Fixes can be made to CVS now, I don't see the point in wasting everyone's time going back and forth with more minor changes.


On Thu, 2004-11-04 at 10:52 +0800, Not Zed wrote:

Ok, finally got a chance to look at this.

Looks fine to me - i'd just like one 'small' change, to be able to set the from account from the dialog box, for doing a direct send.  This is easy to add since the e-error is just a gtkdialog itself.  Although it may look very ugly since the normal account selector is pretty huge.

The button order is also wrong, cancel should be to the left, iirc, e.g. Cancel Edit Send

And one more change (ok so it wasn't all right afterall :), the "list" menu item is still at the bottom, it should be in the reply block or the second to last block.  Maybe the reply block is a good place to put it.

But these are mostly details, the rest is looking ok.

Thanks,
Michael

On Sat, 2004-10-30 at 12:23 +0200, Meilof Veeningen wrote:

Hello,

I have done a revised mailing list actions plugin based on NotZed's 
comments:

  http://home.wanadoo.nl/meilof/filez/mailing-list-actions.tgz

Some comments:

> - it would be really nice to send the mail automatically, not have it
>just bring up a composer, which doesn't really explain what you need to
>do to use it.  This is a feature for 'newbies', so it should be fairly
>fullproof and easy to use.  Like if its a mailto: link, it could run the
>mailto, and then pop up a window explaining what it did and what to
>expect (e.g. 'you should receive a mail with help soon' or whatever).
>To do this you create a message, then append it to the outbox, and then
>trigger a queue send (em_reply_to_message goes through all of these
>steps through various (async) callbacks).  Creating a message is a bit
>painful but not impossibly so.
>  
>
Yes, I thought about that, too, but I guess you'd need a dialog box 
first in which the user can choose from which e-mail address to send the 
message to (in the case of multiple e-mail addresses). Sending it from 
the address the mailing list message was sent to will usually work, but 
especially for subscribing it would be nice to have a choice. I should 
be able to hack together such as dialog box, but it would mean a lot 
more code. This dialog box could contain the "You should receive a mail 
with help soon" remark though.

Another thing: for the "Mailing List" menu item in the popup menu, I 
/had/ to specify a callback method, otherwise Evo would crash on loading 
the menu... Currently I have activate="", but this is probably something 
that should be fixed in evo?

Finally, in the message view dialog, due to my plugin hook, the "Action" 
menu shows up before the other File, Edit, ... menu's. Is there a way to 
control that behavior?


Meilof
 -- meilof wanadoo nl
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