GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 206104
vFolder sources UI should be nicer
Last modified: 2013-09-13 00:49:08 UTC
Package: Evolution Priority: Normal Version: 0.12.99 Synopsis: vFolder sources UI should be nicer Bugzilla-Product: Evolution Bugzilla-Component: Mailer Description: I find that listing off the whole address of the source folders in the vFolder sources window is kind of unneeded. I'd like to see it SOMEHOW make it so the user doesn't see file:// and all the extra stuff. Here's what I suggest. We nest the New Folder window in the sources section. We then put little check boxes next to each folder and you check each folder you want as a source.
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As a result of the UI freeze today, I'm marking all remaining non-1.0 UI bugs to 'future'. Someone reading this should only change the target back to 1.0 under the following circumstances: 1) The change would not impact documentation. (i.e., 'how to do X' would not have to be changed in any way.) 2) The change would require trivial work for the programmers involved. Most likely, only the programmers themselves are able to judge this. So, if you are not on the evo team, or cannot provide a patch to them for this, you should probably not make any such changes. Sorry that this is going to impact so many irritating bugs, but we have to prioritize our limited resources.
Setting this to 1.1.
Ugh, i'd rather not use the folder view, becase of the unecessary complication required. Anyway we can't because we might edit a vfolder which references folders which aren't opened at the moment (on a store). I dont see why this is 1.1 btw
I think nat set this to 1.1 with the presumption that part of 1.1 will be general but simple UI polish (which this seems to be.)
That is right.
Because of the decision to remap 1.1->1.2 and 1.2->1.4, I'm going to be moving a large number of bugs around in the bugzilla. You can just search on 'body contains' 'Because of the decision to remap' and mark all as read. Please direct all questions about this change to evolution@ximian.com, not the bug. Luis
Well anna, design a ui and we'll see if its pratical. Hints: Using the folder selection tree isn't pratical. And the folder name MUST include the protocol + path at least, only having the folder name is bad and confusing.
anna: ping? Are you going to have time to do this?
Well hmm. So I have a patch for this working on my machine. I know, though, that !Z has some problems with it. (Notably, he thinks I am removing important options.) check out: http://primates.ximian.com/~anna/vfolders/ The first image there is not too different (well, I changed some of the packing) from the current set-up. The second one, however, is what happens when the user selects a non-specific folders option (the folder picking stuff is hidden.) The last image in there has an example of a nicer format for the folder names to be in. (eg, no obtuse uris). So that is my recommendation.
I think at least we could use the prettified names insteead of the URIs... don't think there's any information loss there. Eg, "{folderpath} in {accountname}" or "Local folder {foo}" or "VFolder {foo}"
This needs to be postponed until some future release
it's "mbox:Inbox/foo" in 2.1.4, any decision on this (anna/tigert)?
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it's "On this Computer:/Inbox/bla" in 2.7.3, so i'm closing this as fixed.