A.L.E.C wrote:
In last few changes I improved message display screen. So, now it looks the same as the preview frame. I think this way the UI looks more clean and unified. I hope you agree with me. This also matches the look of other tasks e.g. addressbook where white color is used for the whole contact information frame/box.
Because I was never happy with that how mail compose screen looks like, the idea came to make the same with compose screen. I started to work on this. See attached screenshot. The main reason of this change is a unification, but it will fix some issues on compose screen. E.g. the whole compose box will be scrollable so there will be no problems with too small screen height (even with displayed all headers and options).
Opinions?
I like the old/current screen better because it brings a better separation of the different parts (headers, compose text, options). We already had feedback from a usability expert, that the gray arrow to expand the headers in the preview frame is not intuitive and I think we should therefore not copy that into the compose screen. And where can I now add CC, BCC and stuff?
Improvement of the current compose screen could be:
- Add toolbar buttons for send/save/cancel and move the current form
buttons to the bottom of the screen. That's what we have in the classic skin and it respects the top-to-bottom flow one might have when composing a message.
- The white compose area (especially in plain text mode) could get of a 3D
inset border in order to make it more appear as a place where one can enter text.
~Thomas