I feel bad voicing anything other than praise for this amazing project, so first: Thanx again for the *BEST* webmail client of all time!!!
But since updating to 0.5.1 a couple of little things that pop up in the what do we call it - status area at the top of the screen - have been striking me as less great than before:
Sometimes one message like green "Sent" occupies that space, and a second one comes up *below* it like gray "Loading. . ." This doubling and sort of extra flashing/movement seems less like snazzy clean ajax magic, and a little more like noiz. Anyone else wish to see this area remain one at a time?
Also, when entering a recipient, if it finds them in addy book, and I hit tab, then tab again to move on to the subject field, I get the message up there "Enter at least 1 xharacter for autocompletion" because there is the trailing comma. This I would also say seems less than useful.
Benjamin _______________________________________________ List info: http://lists.roundcube.net/dev/ BT/aba52c80
On Sat, 19 Feb 2011 09:32:00 -0800 (PST), ben@electricembers.net wrote:
Sometimes one message like green "Sent" occupies that space, and a second one comes up *below* it like gray "Loading. . ." This doubling and sort of extra flashing/movement seems less like snazzy clean ajax magic, and a little more like noiz. Anyone else wish to see this area remain one at a time?
Maybe we could display "Loading..." message in other way. Any ideas?
Also, when entering a recipient, if it finds them in addy book, and I hit tab, then tab again to move on to the subject field, I get the message up there "Enter at least 1 xharacter for autocompletion" because there is the trailing comma. This I would also say seems less than useful.
http://trac.roundcube.net/changeset/4563 should fix this issue.
A.L.E.C wrote:
On Sat, 19 Feb 2011 09:32:00 -0800 (PST), ben@electricembers.net wrote:
Sometimes one message like green "Sent" occupies that space, and a second one comes up *below* it like gray "Loading. . ." This doubling and sort of extra flashing/movement seems less like snazzy clean ajax magic, and a little more like noiz. Anyone else wish to see this area remain one at a time?
The question is, how much information does the user really need? Early versions of Roundcube hardly showed any confirmation messages, the user had to assume that the operation (e.g. moving, deleting) was successful unless an error message was displayed.
I personally prefer this silent-and-just-working solution but people obviously discovered that internet and web apps are not always reliable and thus want to be informed about what's going on.
BTW: you can hide the messages by clicking on them (except the loading notice) in case they cover some other UI elements.
Maybe we could display "Loading..." message in other way. Any ideas?
We're currently working on a redesign of the UI and the message display is one of the things to be improved. Hopefully our screen designer will come up with a snappy solution for this.
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Maybe we could display "Loading..." message in other way. Any ideas?
Compared to "Sent" or "Saved" or whatever else, "Loading" doesn't seem that useful/important, and is likely redundant with the browser tab or whatever also spinning during loading. So if a decision had to be made which one to display, I would lean away from "Loading" and toward whatever other message. That's our $0.02.
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