Thanks a lot, Thomas, for working on this !
On Mon, 29 Mar 2010 17:11:19 +0200, Thomas Bruederli roundcube@gmail.com wrote:
Hi devs and list lurkers
The contact groups feature in trunk is not yet finished and there remain
a
few questions I couldn't finally answer by myself. Any feedback and suggestions are welcome:
- Should every address source provide it's own groups? This would mean
that the groups list will also be replaced when switching between
address
sources (i.e. SQL address book and LDAP). Currently the listed groups only belong to the local address book and therefore only contacts from this address source can be stored in
groups. I
assume that LDAP in general would support groups as well.
Why not importing LDAP contacts locally when adding somebody in a group ? I assume that if you want to create a group with specific contacts, then those contacts should be part of your local address book. Does anybody think this is a wrong assumption ?
- When composing a message, groups are also included in the
find-as-you-type query and will be simply expanded when selecting them. This is the GMail way and has the advantage, that one can still remove
one
or the other recipient. The disadvantage of this behavior is that the recipients field will be cluttered with many addresses. Other mail
clients
such as Thunderbird resolve the group members when the message is sent.
I like the thunderbird behavior, much easier to send email to several groups. And if you want to double check the members of a group, you are free to do it outside of the compose window.
- How to remove contacts from a group? The current implementation just
removes the contact when hitting "delete" and a contact group is
selected.
If no group is selected, the "delete" function will prompt the user
before
finally deleting the currently selected contact.
Where is that located ? Inside the group view or in each contact detail view ? Also, I would avoid the word 'delete' when removing a contact from a group, it gives the user the false impression that he's going to delete the contact completely. 'remove from group' would be more user-friendly I think.
Regards, Julien _______________________________________________ List info: http://lists.roundcube.net/dev/