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Bug 246226 - Advanced Search dialog - UI suggestions
Advanced Search dialog - UI suggestions
Status: RESOLVED OBSOLETE
Product: evolution
Classification: Applications
Component: Mailer
3.2.x (obsolete)
Other other
: Normal normal
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Assigned To: evolution-mail-maintainers
Evolution QA team
Depends on:
Blocks: 246224
 
 
Reported: 2003-07-13 21:40 UTC by Eugene O'Connor
Modified: 2021-05-19 12:13 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
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Description Eugene O'Connor 2003-07-13 21:40:55 UTC
Advanced Search dialog - To open, choose Search > Advanced.

1. In the case of an advanced search, there is no need for the "Rule name" 
text box until after a user clicks on Save. It might be better to popup a 
dialog when a user clicks on Save. 
2. Would it be more logical to put the Add button and Execute actions drop-
down list below the table of criteria? Would this make more sense from a 
usability point of view?

This bug blocks bug 246224.
Comment 1 Anna Marie Dirks 2003-09-18 15:05:33 UTC
Well, are there specific problems that you have seen users having with
the buttons in their current place, etc? If we know exactly what bits
people don't understand, it would be easier to know how to fix the
problem. 

At any rate, there has been a flurry of discussion about drastically
changing the UI for the filters/vfolders/searches in 2.0 ; perhaps
this time we'll be able to develop the UI from the ground up, instead
of trying to use an outlookish design and then trying to massage it
into something gnome-esque. 
Comment 2 Eugene O'Connor 2003-10-08 10:39:06 UTC
I have not seen users experience particular problems with the items I 
mention above. This is mostly a personal response from my experiences 
documenting this function.

Re #1: As I documented this function, I noticed that the sequence of 
actions that I needed to describe seemed a little disjointed. It did 
not seem logical to me to give a name to save as before I had created 
the rule. I felt like saving a file before it contained any 
information, and this was what jarred with me.

Re #2: Users already have one row of what the Add button gives them 
when they open the dialog. I am trying to follow a principle of moving 
from simple to complex down the dialog. That is, don't make the user 
need to figure out the relationship between these three elements until 
they need to. It may be that they will not need to use the Add button 
at all, so why confuse the path to the rule row with the Add button?
Comment 3 André Klapper 2012-02-10 17:26:52 UTC
Still in 3.2.3.
Comment 4 André Klapper 2021-05-19 12:13:18 UTC
GNOME is going to shut down bugzilla.gnome.org in favor of gitlab.gnome.org. 
As part of that, we are mass-closing older open tickets in bugzilla.gnome.org
which have not seen updates for a longer time (resources are unfortunately
quite limited so not every ticket can get handled).

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Thank you for your understanding and your help.