Has any more progress been made on the message preview patch? Any idea when this will be in CVS?
-j
I'm not happy with the solution yet because it adds the preview frame dynamically to the body which has a static size. When resizing the window, the whole interface looks a bit messed up. Also the function for showing stripped images is not available in the preview frame.
Originally I planned to solve this with the skin but didn't have the time to get deeper into this.
Unfortunately I didn't have time to talk to Olivier about this and that's why it's not in the CVS.
Regards, Thomas
Jeremy Jongsma wrote:
Has any more progress been made on the message preview patch? Any idea when this will be in CVS?
-j
Until a preview window is ready (or if one will be), what do you think of making a single click open a message rather than highlighting it, UNLESS control or shift is being held down? Would make it more intuitive I think.
-j
On Tue, 2005-10-25 at 16:37 +0200, Thomas Bruederli wrote:
I'm not happy with the solution yet because it adds the preview frame dynamically to the body which has a static size. When resizing the window, the whole interface looks a bit messed up. Also the function for showing stripped images is not available in the preview frame.
Originally I planned to solve this with the skin but didn't have the time to get deeper into this.
Unfortunately I didn't have time to talk to Olivier about this and that's why it's not in the CVS.
Regards, Thomas
Jeremy Jongsma wrote:
Has any more progress been made on the message preview patch? Any idea when this will be in CVS?
-j
for most people (especially those from the windows world), 1 click on a list is select, 2 clicks to activate is standard.
Jeremy Jongsma wrote:
Until a preview window is ready (or if one will be), what do you think of making a single click open a message rather than highlighting it, UNLESS control or shift is being held down? Would make it more intuitive I think.
-j
On Tue, 2005-10-25 at 16:37 +0200, Thomas Bruederli wrote:
I'm not happy with the solution yet because it adds the preview frame dynamically to the body which has a static size. When resizing the window, the whole interface looks a bit messed up. Also the function for showing stripped images is not available in the preview frame.
Originally I planned to solve this with the skin but didn't have the time to get deeper into this.
Unfortunately I didn't have time to talk to Olivier about this and that's why it's not in the CVS.
Regards, Thomas
Jeremy Jongsma wrote:
Has any more progress been made on the message preview patch? Any idea when this will be in CVS?
-j
Right, but not on the web. Look how something like Gmail still works, even with all the AJAX stuff they do. I just think it's more natural for a web interface. Most of the people in my company that I've had try it clicked on a message and said "it's not doing anything".
-j
On Thu, 2005-10-27 at 11:19 -0400, Jeffrey Bacon wrote:
for most people (especially those from the windows world), 1 click on a list is select, 2 clicks to activate is standard.
Jeremy Jongsma wrote:
Until a preview window is ready (or if one will be), what do you think of making a single click open a message rather than highlighting it, UNLESS control or shift is being held down? Would make it more intuitive I think.
-j
On Tue, 2005-10-25 at 16:37 +0200, Thomas Bruederli wrote:
I'm not happy with the solution yet because it adds the preview frame dynamically to the body which has a static size. When resizing the window, the whole interface looks a bit messed up. Also the function for showing stripped images is not available in the preview frame.
Originally I planned to solve this with the skin but didn't have the time to get deeper into this.
Unfortunately I didn't have time to talk to Olivier about this and that's why it's not in the CVS.
Regards, Thomas
Jeremy Jongsma wrote:
Has any more progress been made on the message preview patch? Any idea when this will be in CVS?
-j
I suppose, but GMail doesn't support drag-n-drop of messages. Single click-activate will make the drag-n-drop part a little harder to use in case you accidentally click instead of hold the mouse down to drag (I know, most of us will have no problem but I've dealt with a lot of user issues that I think are simplistic but un-techy or less computer experienced people seem to have issues with).
I do agree that web-UI tends to be one click activate though. A nice looking mouse-over with a help message might be nice (actually, extending mouse-over help messages might be a great/easy way to implement context sensitive help), like, in a little pop-up balloon thingy.
Jeremy Jongsma wrote:
Right, but not on the web. Look how something like Gmail still works, even with all the AJAX stuff they do. I just think it's more natural for a web interface. Most of the people in my company that I've had try it clicked on a message and said "it's not doing anything".
-j
On Thu, 2005-10-27 at 11:19 -0400, Jeffrey Bacon wrote:
for most people (especially those from the windows world), 1 click on a list is select, 2 clicks to activate is standard.
Jeremy Jongsma wrote:
Until a preview window is ready (or if one will be), what do you think of making a single click open a message rather than highlighting it, UNLESS control or shift is being held down? Would make it more intuitive I think.
-j
On Tue, 2005-10-25 at 16:37 +0200, Thomas Bruederli wrote:
I'm not happy with the solution yet because it adds the preview frame dynamically to the body which has a static size. When resizing the window, the whole interface looks a bit messed up. Also the function for showing stripped images is not available in the preview frame.
Originally I planned to solve this with the skin but didn't have the time to get deeper into this.
Unfortunately I didn't have time to talk to Olivier about this and that's why it's not in the CVS.
Regards, Thomas
Jeremy Jongsma wrote:
Has any more progress been made on the message preview patch? Any idea when this will be in CVS?
-j
I personally like the current functionality - yes it is a shift in paradigm, but I don't think that is a bad thing.
Devs: if you do ever implement any changes to this - please keep the current mechanism available for those of us who like it.
my thoughts, j.
On Thu, 27 Oct 2005 10:39:07 -0500, Jeremy Jongsma jeremy@jongsma.org wrote:
Right, but not on the web. Look how something like Gmail still works, even with all the AJAX stuff they do. I just think it's more natural for a web interface. Most of the people in my company that I've had try it clicked on a message and said "it's not doing anything".
-j
On Thu, 2005-10-27 at 11:19 -0400, Jeffrey Bacon wrote:
for most people (especially those from the windows world), 1 click on a list is select, 2 clicks to activate is standard.
Jeremy Jongsma wrote:
Until a preview window is ready (or if one will be), what do you think of making a single click open a message rather than highlighting it, UNLESS control or shift is being held down? Would make it more intuitive I think.
-j
On Tue, 2005-10-25 at 16:37 +0200, Thomas Bruederli wrote:
I'm not happy with the solution yet because it adds the preview frame dynamically to the body which has a static size. When resizing the window, the whole interface looks a bit messed up. Also the function
for
showing stripped images is not available in the preview frame.
Originally I planned to solve this with the skin but didn't have the time to get deeper into this.
Unfortunately I didn't have time to talk to Olivier about this and that's why it's not in the CVS.
Regards, Thomas
Jeremy Jongsma wrote:
Has any more progress been made on the message preview patch? Any
idea
when this will be in CVS?
-j
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