[dev] Re: whishlist.......

Ruben van der Steenhoven ruben_donotspamme at webmeesters.nl
Tue Jul 29 13:23:16 PDT 2003


Eric Rostetter wrote:
> Quoting Chuck Hagenbuch <chuck at horde.org>:
> 
> 
>>>Maybe this may be the way to go: Set up any application so that, based
>>>on an URL-option it either starts full screen, or in a pop-up, and then
>>>from the main-menu i'd propose to always call the full-screen versions,
>>>but from context-menues (like in IMP) call it in a pop-up. This would
>>>make things rather configurable. Wouldn't that suit most people?
>>
>>I'm not sure I follow you. Can you try rephrasing this, or breaking it out a
>>bit more?
> 
> 
> 
> I think he is saying:  If in the Horde menu, open in the current window.
> If elsewhere (e.g. IMP menu bar, icon in compose page, etc) open in a popup
> window.
> 
> I don't like this, as I'm sure it would result in lots of questions why
> it opens one way sometimes and another way other times.  The typical user
> at my site will not see the correlation, and will think it randomly or
> mysteriously opens differently each time for no reason.
> 

You had it basically right Eric, and maybe you're right about the 
confusion too, i am not sure, thats why i made it optional/configurable 
and maybe you should take that one step further and make it a user 
preference...




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