Re: [evolution-patches] Redesign of To, Cc and Bcc fields of Composer (THIS TIME WITH SOME SNAPSHOTS)

[Jeffrey Stedfast <fejj novell com>]

I think the ideas have merit but at least in the case of the menus
listing the email addresses (e.g. the mailing-list screenshot), the menu
might become too long. Same with the multiple email address selector
(altho this is less likely to become out-of-hand).

A mailing list of users might be far too long to squeeze into a
reasonably sized menu (think of the Novell mailing lists for example
where every single email address in the company is added...ugh, 6,000
email addresses in a menu would never work).

Screenshot #2 is okish (it doesn't suffer from the 6,000 item menu),
altho it seems to allow "selecting" of an email address, but that's not
what the widget is meant to do. It's meant to only list the email
addresses on a more readable way, correct? I look at that screenshot and
think "what happens if I click an email address? will it wipe out my To:
field and replace it with the one I selected?" and that is kinda
frightening if I've just manually entered a bunch of addresses. So I
wonder if there's a betetr way of showing this to avoid users having my
first frightened instinct.

Anyways, hopefully my thoughts are useful...

Jeff

On Tue, 2005-11-08 at 17:21 +0530, Devashish wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> This patch proposes some UI changes to the Composer fields to make them
> more flexible and easy to use.
> Earlier there was no mechanism to verify or check the email addresses u
> have entered except for horizontal scrolling.
> Now the entered email addresses can be easily verified by pressing the
> button at the end of To, Cc, Bcc fields or by pressing (Ctrl ->), this
> pops down a list which shows all the email addresses entered in the
> particular field. This list is easily scrollable and supports delete
> operation also.
> Also included in this patch is srinis patch which allows u to remove
> names from contact list for a single mail.
> 
> By joining these two patches almost all the enhancement requests and
> bugs related to composer fields are solved.
> 
> Related Bug Numbers are:
> http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=220570
> http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=231751
> http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=207635
> http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=272391
> 
> Links to Snapshots:
> http://gnomebangalore.org/~sragavan/snapshot1.png
> 
> Snapshot 2 showing the popup dropdown which allows you to traverse and
> verify email addresses easily.
> http://gnomebangalore.org/~sragavan/snapshot2.png
> 
> Snapshot 3 shows mailing list with all the addresses selected
> http://gnomebangalore.org/~sragavan/snapshot3.png
> 
> Snapshot 4 shows mailing list with some addresses left out , so some
> names can be removed from a mailing list for a particular email.
> http://gnomebangalore.org/~sragavan/snapshot4.png
> 
> Snapshot 5 shows a name with multiple email addressed associated with it
> and user can select to which email address he wants to send the mail.
> http://gnomebangalore.org/~sragavan/snapshot5.png
> 
> 
> Please give a try to this and give your feedback regarding any bugs or
> usability issues.
> Also as of now we have used a stock icon for the button but we are
> looking for some better ones and hope somebody will suggest a really
> neat and fitting icon for this.
> 
> 
> Thanks
> Devashish Sharma
> 
> 
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Jeffrey Stedfast
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