[dev] Delete & Purge

[Federico Giannici]

Eric Rostetter wrote:
> 
> Quoting Federico Giannici <giannici@neomedia.it>:
> 
> > I received no feedback of my proposal from the Chuck, Jan, Eric, etc...
> > Was it so stupid?
> 
> I'm pretty sure I did respond...

Humm...
I received only a reply from Tero Matinlassi...


> > In the meanwhile, for various reasons (consistency with other parts of
> > the program, efficiency, etc...) I changed a little my mind.
> > My new filosopy is "help novice users to become expert ones"!
> >
> > So, I'm trying to make more evident to novice users that the deletion of
> > messages is a two steps operation and what are the two steps.
> 
> A good goal, but I think your solution, while helping novice users, may
> be inconvenient for non-novice users.

OK, but in our expericence most users of our webmail are novice users,
while expert ones usually use real MUA programs.

So we are trying to configure our installation for novice users, the
expert ones will have to adapt themself...  :-/


> > Here is an image of the final layout:
> >
> >     http://www.neomedia.it/horde/deletepurge.png
> 
> Personally I don't like it.  I would want the order to be
> "delete | delete&purge"
> or
> "delete | purge deleted | delete&purge"

Humm...
Maybe "delete | purge deleted | hide deleted | undelete | delete &
purge".
It can be discussed...


> and more, I really hade the blacklist being all alone on the left.
> Maybe just me, but I don't like it being so lonely over there ;)
> 
> In the new layout, you've put things that depend on the checkbox field
> away from the checkbox (blaklist) and things that don't depend on the
> checkbox field (purge) over the checkbox.  This doesn't seem like a good
> layout at all.

Oh, I didn't thought to the "proximity" of the commands to the
checkboxes...

Anyway, I still think that the commands should be grouped together
according to related functionality, and all commands but Blacklist are
related to the deletion of messages.

I prefer my "functional" aggregation rather than your "spatial" one. 
;-)


Bye,
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