Hello everybody
First of all, these are NOT complaints. Just constructive opinions :-). I coded my first webmail in '97 and had tens of thousands of users until I gave it all away a while ago (after not coding anything for years) so I do know how it's all supposed to work.
These are not in any particular order. And I didn't read the code - I'm pretending to be an ordinary loser.
- The install was easy and config variables eerily reminded me of the
ones in my own webmail.... :-) Then again, I'm a long-time Unix administrator so pretty much anything is easy.
- After I log out, the first login after that always fails. Second one
succeeds.
[DAMN! I spilled the wine]
- In the folder view the top buttons don't scroll but in the message
view they do. A little consistency won't hurt.
- I have all my folders under ~/mail/. I first had imap_root=mail/ but
then realized that some users had their folders in ~ (this is on a shared server with about 50 users). So I backed out to imap_root=''. I now have mail/INBOX in my folder list which won't go away (the folder doesn't exist).
- I have my sent emails in mail/sent-mail and I'd like to configure
Roundcube to do the same.
- I had a REAL hard time opening emails. One click selects, but how the
fuck do I open them? Web pages don't have a thing called double-click, so Roundcube shouldn't have one either. This was probably the worst of the problems.
- The icons... The icons you don't use are 32x32 while the icons you use
most are 11x11, or practically unclickable. Yeah, I'm talking about Next and Previons message/page.
- What's the deal with having icons both in the top and in the bottom?
[hours pass... wife is talking about religions...]
[two bottles of wine finished, now all we gots are two bottles of cider]
- Teh "Loadign" widow is in the top of the screen, not where you click.
Clicking stuff doesn't alywas give immediate feedback.
- The icons don't describe what they mean. Textual explanation under
them would be great.
- The "Print" icon launches a new window and the print window on top of
that (Linux + Firefox). Why?
- Trash has the stop icon? WTF? I didn't know it meant "Move to trash"
until I stopped on top of it. A major no-no.
"Back to message list" icon hints "the previous message" which it isn't.
Reply and forward icons look different (the envelope). Why? The action
is the same, only to different recipient - the content should be same.
- The main Roudcube logo doesn't take me to the main page - whatever
that is. People are used to clicking at the Big Logo Thingy to get back to where they started from.
Address book should open the first contact automatically
What's the deal between "view" and "edit" in address book? They are
the same.
- Preferences / Folders lists ALL files I have in my $HOME. The default
folder list doesn't.
- Hitting ESC while waiting for the above folder list to load makes the
whole interface not work. Need to click "Back" on the browser to get the interface function again.
- Clicking Inbox doesn't give teh user any feedback - it just took me
around 5 seconds between clicking and seeing any difference.
[There's porn on TV, see you later]
- Kim