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

[Jeffrey Stedfast <fejj novell com>]

On Wed, 2005-11-09 at 09:53 +0530, Srinivasa Ragavan wrote:
> On Tue, 2005-11-08 at 13:11 -0500, Jeffrey Stedfast wrote:
> > 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).
> > 
> Hmm interesting thoughts. I agree that we might have issues if the list
> is more. 6000 address lists in Novell are single email and not a list
> (FYI). These are contact lists, but still this can be huge on some
> occasions. Ill employ some more thoughts to it. thanks for ur
> directions :-)
> > 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.
> The screenshot shows the list of emails entered. It holds further on
> clicks. Meaning, you can multiselect delete, etc. When you press ESC or
> start typing it hides and continues adding addresses. Hope i have
> cleared your doubt. The horizontal scrolling has huge issues, in
> browsing and we were trying to solve those issues. 

understood, but my point was that everywhere a GtkCombo is used in other
GNOME applications, selecting an item in the combo-dropdown would
replace the text entry field with the value selected. This is the source
of fear I was talking about.

Jeff

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Jeffrey Stedfast
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