I prefer the proposed new look&feel instead of the current Larry variation. It's indeed more intuitive and results more cleaner interface. I really like it's simplicity and for me that "gray arrow thing" is just fine. But if need arise we may improve it by either creating nice mouseover highlight for it, or by auto expanding it on mouseover and auto collapsing it (but only the non customized fields) on mouseout.
Barna
On 2012-09-05 19:16, A.L.E.C wrote:
On 09/05/2012 04:14 PM, Thomas Bruederli wrote:
I like the old/current screen better because it brings a better separation of the different parts (headers, compose text, options). We already had
But my way it just looks the same as in message preview. The interface becomes more intuitive when unified. Why not make message compose looks the same as message preview?
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?
Additional headers and options would be displayed when you click on this "not intuitive expander" ;) It's just me who thinks that current compose screen in Larry just looks ugly?
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.
In my opinion we don't need more buttons, but current buttons should be moved to the toolbar for sure.
Is community not interested in the discussion? I'm waiting for more opinions.