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Bug 312032 - Attachment widget duplicate attachment indication
Attachment widget duplicate attachment indication
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 311501
Product: evolution
Classification: Applications
Component: Mailer
2.4.x (obsolete)
Other Linux
: High major
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Assigned To: Srinivasa Ragavan
Evolution QA team
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2005-07-30 08:51 UTC by Baptiste Mille-Mathias
Modified: 2013-09-13 00:52 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
GNOME version: ---

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screenshot of the mail widget with attachment widgets expanded (36.46 KB, image/png)
2005-07-30 08:52 UTC, Baptiste Mille-Mathias 		Details

Description Baptiste Mille-Mathias 2005-07-30 08:51:06 UTC 
Version details: 2.3.6.1

I don't really understand what is the usage of the mail attachment creates in
the latest evolution dev release.
it duplicates :
- the way to display the numbers of attachments
- the way to to display the content of the attachment

it really an high usability problem
Comment 1 Baptiste Mille-Mathias 2005-07-30 08:52:22 UTC 
Created attachment 49966 [details]
screenshot of the mail widget with attachment widgets expanded
Comment 2 Baptiste Mille-Mathias 2005-07-30 09:19:36 UTC 
set the UI keyword
Comment 3 Jeffrey Stedfast 2005-07-30 13:31:19 UTC 
yes, I agree... I brought up these points months ago when the proposal was first
made.

but no one bothered to do usability testing... *sigh*

same with a bunch of the other new ui changes.
Comment 4 Srinivasa Ragavan 2005-08-01 03:50:24 UTC 
Baptiste,
Attachment Area is the way to go. Since its very intuitive to do DnD, save,
select and do some operation. But since the threaded view of evolution is pretty
good, im unable to find a balance between the two things. Its fine, if we
duplicate as of now, and work out a better proposal in future. Many users find
the DnD, Save All, etc difficult to use with the existing approach. This would
partially solve it.

Hope you are OK with my comments.
Comment 5 Baptiste Mille-Mathias 2005-08-01 17:33:34 UTC 
Hum, I'm not really ok with the state of Attachment right now, but I think you
don't care :) (I don't think to be able to stop evolution development :)). You
can't deny that it makes the message UI heavy and let Evolution in an unfinished
status. Not very good for Evolution and GNOME crew.
UI changes like this should be implementented earlier in the GNOME development
cycle, because as it appeared just before the UI freeze, people cannot share
their thoughts and any changes on the UI cannot be done.

Regards
Comment 6 Nagappan Alagappan 2005-08-08 11:42:17 UTC 

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 311501 ***