[dev] Interesting design element

[Jan Schneider]

One of my customers modified the Kronolith (and some other too)  
interface to reduce some of the cluttering and complexity without  
loosing any functionality. We already have a similar feature in DIMP  
but I wondered why we didn't think of it as a solution for other  
interfaces as well. It's simple, beautiful, effective and we already  
have everything in Horde to implement this.

Take a look at the screenshots and you'll see what I mean. Parts of  
large UIs can be expanded and collapsed dynamically with a simple  
mouse click, for example with Horde_Hideable. We don't need to change  
any backend code, just need to make sure that all hideable elements  
are in a single container. It gracefully falls back to browsers  
without javascript. And it looks nice.

I propose to use this in several places where we have very complex  
forms, the event and compose screens come to mind immediately, but  
there are probably other places as well. What do you think?

Jan.

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