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Bug 246238 - Consistent order of items in Format menu and toolbar of composition window
Consistent order of items in Format menu and toolbar of composition window
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 408707
Product: evolution
Classification: Applications
Component: Mailer
2.22.x (obsolete)
Other other
: Normal enhancement
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Assigned To: Evolution Product Design Team
Evolution QA team
evolution[composer]
Depends on:
Blocks: 246224
 
 
Reported: 2003-07-13 21:53 UTC by Eugene O'Connor
Modified: 2008-06-22 22:15 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
GNOME version: ---


Attachments
Toolbars when editing HTML (26.79 KB, image/png)
2005-01-31 17:46 UTC, Ben Kahn
Details
Toolbars when editing plain text. (24.15 KB, image/png)
2005-01-31 17:46 UTC, Ben Kahn
Details

Description Eugene O'Connor 2003-07-13 21:53:15 UTC
Compose a message dialog - To open, choose File > New > Mail Message.

1. Format toolbar: Could the items in this toolbar be more logically 
ordered? So that the font items are all together and the paragraph items 
are all together. And also so that the sequence of items is the same 
sequence that is used in the menubar. So the order could be:
[B] [I] [U] [S] [Font Size] [Font Color] | [Para Styles] [Para Align x 3] 
[Para Indent x 2]
2. Why is teletype (TT) on the format toolbar, but not in the Format > 
Style menu? I think generally the toolbar functions are a subset of 
options on the menubar, not the other way around.

This bug blocks bug 246224.
Comment 1 Anna Marie Dirks 2003-09-18 16:57:41 UTC
Your report makes it sound like the order of that toolbar is much
worse than it actually is. :)

It looks to me like the only thing needed to make #1 happen is that
the type option menu should be the first thing in the toolbar, and the
font size option menu should come after font style items. 

#2 is an oversight, not a statement about the intended relationship
between menus and toolbars. I agree with you that it should obviously
be in the menu.
Comment 2 Eugene O'Connor 2003-10-08 12:16:29 UTC
Re #1: The current order is:

[Font Size] [Para Styles] [TT] [B] [I] [U] [S] | [Para Align x 3] |
[Para Indent x 2] [Font Color]

So the following needs to happen:

a. Move Font Size to after the Strikethrough button. 
b. Move Font Color to after Font Size. 
c. Move Para Styles to after Font Color

Re #2: If it is intended that [TT] will be in the toolbar, I'd suggest
the following toolbar button order:

[B] [I] [U] [TT] [S] [Font Size] [Font Color] | [Para Styles] [Para
Align x 3] [Para Indent x 2]
Comment 3 Not Zed 2005-01-31 07:39:56 UTC
its not a dialogue, its a window
Comment 4 Ben Kahn 2005-01-31 17:45:49 UTC
Would the following toolbar orders be better?
Comment 5 Ben Kahn 2005-01-31 17:46:07 UTC
Created attachment 44707 [details]
Toolbars when editing HTML
Comment 6 Ben Kahn 2005-01-31 17:46:29 UTC
Created attachment 44708 [details]
Toolbars when editing plain text.
Comment 7 Eugene O'Connor 2005-02-04 14:44:12 UTC
I find it hard to figure out a logical order to the items on these
toolbars. The order in these screenshots is:

HTML:
[Para Styles] [Font Size] [Font Color] [B] [I] [U] [separator] [Para
Align x 3] [separator] [Para Number] [Para Bullet] [Para Indent x 2]
[separator] [Insert Object]

Plain text:
[Para Styles] [separator] [Para Align x 3] [separator] [Para Number]
[Para Bullet] [Para Indent x 2] 

I think the most logical ordering is font-related items first,
followed by paragraph-related items, then other items. So I would
suggest the following ordering:

HTML:
[Font Size] [Font Color] [B] [I] [U] [separator] [Para Styles] [Para
Align x 3] [Para Number] [Para Bullet] [Para Indent x 2] [separator]
[Insert Object]

Plain text:
[Para Styles] [Para Align x 3] [Para Number] [Para Bullet] [Para
Indent x 2] 

Note that I am also suggesting a separator only between the logical
groups, that is font items, separator, paragraph items, separator,
other items. However, this another separator between the paragraph
alignment buttons and the numbering button might be useful to break up
the sequence of buttons for the user, and enable them to learn them
more quickly.
Comment 8 Matthew Barnes 2008-04-06 19:19:38 UTC
Any further thoughts on this?  We're now (three years later) at an opportune time to change these sorts of things in the composer.
Comment 9 Matthew Barnes 2008-06-22 22:15:44 UTC
Folding this discussion into bug #408707, so it's all in one place.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 408707 ***