Re: [RCD] New compose screen?

On 25.06.2010 00:40, Brandon Davidson wrote:

I'm not sure I like it - one of my favorite things about Roundcube is that it looks and feels like a traditional 'thick' mail client in a lot of ways that make people feel very comfortable with it. The new compose view is pretty drastically different, and I'm afraid it would scare people away, back to our old webmail system that I'm trying to lure them off of. People fear change :(

We could place all fields one below the other, but in this case (having all fields with 100% width of the screen) the width will be too big. So, the ideas for re-design were to:

1. Unification

• style attachments list as other lists in Roundcube,
• use Roundcube's "box styles".

2. UX

• make body field higher and resizable,
• make attachments list width bigger and resizable,
• make all elements to fill the screen (e.g. no empty (unused) space

below the attachment list)

• no page scrolling when new fields are added (CC, BCC, ...)
• unification ;)

And I think it's done right, but I see so many votes for "No". I'm depressed ;)