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

[Srinivasa Ragavan <sragavan novell com>]

On Tue, 2005-11-08 at 13:43 -0500, Chris Toshok wrote:
> Well, in the context menus for mailing list and contacts, the use of the
> word "Edit" is really unfortunate.  You're not editing the actual
> mailing list or contact.  you're just deciding which address(es) to send
> the mail to.
> 
Ill look into it.
> Also, I intensely dislike the fact that this puts clickable buttons on
> both sides of the text field.  And the fact that the scrollable dropdown
> duplicates functionality already found in the select names chooser
> dialogs.  Why not alter the behavior of the dialog - make it behave like
> a popup, make it a lot leaner screen real estate wise, and make it
> directly (and only) applicable to the button you clicked (i.e. When you
> click the To: button, it only allows you to modify the To: field).
> 
i understand, initially it wasn't there, and just CTRL+ -> would bring
it in and it is difficult to learn also. So we thought we 'll do it. The
TO button has a different purpose, it adds to the field in a different
dialog and has a different target users. (Who mostly hate typing). But
this is to solve the purpose of both power users and other, who just
change at the point and proceed. May be it was difficult to visualize,
we can evaluate, that's the point of proposing it early in the cycle. 
> The point being there's no reason to have two wildly different ways to
> modify the contents of the field, when we could have one that works.
> 
> Chris
> 
> 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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-Srini