Re: [evolution-patches] Fix to resize the composer attachment bar

[guenther <guenther rudersport de>]

On Fri, 2005-06-10 at 09:30 -0400, Jeffrey Stedfast wrote:
> On Fri, 2005-06-10 at 00:56 -0400, Lee Revell wrote:

> >   This
> > way, you could just backspace over the icon to delete the attachment,
> > and dnd into the message body to attach.
> 
> nice idea but I don't think it would work in practice (not to mention
> non-trivial)
> 
> if the attachments are always going to be at the bottom anyway, it seems
> easier to just use the current attachment bar.
> 
> the only problem we really need to solve here is making it so that the
> user can drop the attachment he wants to add anywhere on the composer
> window and have it be attached.
> 
> there's no real need to change the attachment bar ui from the way it was
> in 2.2 afaict (I certainly don't seem to recall seeing any bugs reported
> about wanting to be able to resize it or anything else)

Agreed. :)


> I'm not necessarily against adding the ability to resize the attachment
> bar, but we should definitely go back to having the expander I think -
> if we then add the resize ability, we should probably make it such that
> you couldn't resize to smaller than what is needed to display a single
> row of attachment icons.

Agreed, I think we definitely should go back to the expander, too. The
expander is a great way to manage your attached files while still having
the option to visually "hide" all attachments leaving nothing but a
small informative status note.

IMHO there is only one real issue with the 2.2.x way to deal with
attachments: Not display added attachments (expanding the attachment
pane every time an attachments gets added). Seems to me, like this is
the real issue with all this re-working anyway...

If the attachment pane pops up every time an attachment gets added, the
user can not add an attachment by mistake. [1]


Anyway, having the option to still adjust the height of the attachment
pane would maybe will be a good idea. But please don't get rid of the
extremely handy and nice expander!


On a related note, I wonder if the attachments could be displayed in a
list view, like Nautilus and the file chooser offers...

...guenther  (who really loves the expander)


[1] Like adding a full set of vCards -- just cause the To/Ccc/Bcc
    buttons don't listen to drag-n-drop of Contacts. This just happened
    2 weeks ago to me... :/


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