[dev] UI feedback

[Michael M Slusarz]

Using the interface over the weekend, these are my thoughts (on imp):

* Padding has not grown at me.  At all.  It is wasting space on the  
screen and is distracting.  We need to get rid of it.  (For the  
record, I had raised these concerns in the original feedback.  I  
didn't feel the need to raise them again the 2nd goaround, since it  
would have just been repetitive of the original feedback).

* On the compose screen, why is there so much padding between Priority  
and Encryption?  It looks broken.  The popdown buttons are too far  
away from the text here (and in Folder Actions in mailbox screen).   
Popdown positioning does seem appropriate in both the top bar and  
action buttons.

* Shouldn't the search icon appear before the search box rather than  
after?  As currently styled, there should probably be some sort of  
separator between search and logout.

* Still totally disagree about the large/bolded subject.  That's just  
bad UI theory.  Duplication of data with no benefit (and users are  
never going to look at that information anyway).

And IIRC, we did analytics (at least at SAPO) and most users DO have  
the preview header expanded to show To/Cc/Bcc, so this is an issue.

* There's also no discernible indication that the preview header can  
be toggled.  Or that the From/To/Cc/Bcc names are associated with a  
context menu.

* There's an issue where the preview pane is not correctly sizing to  
the bottom of the screen.  The right vertical scroll bar is floating  
about 10px above the bottom of the browser window.

* Folder lists are broken: everything after the first child level is  
displayed at the same indentation.  Really not digging the icons  
either - the expand/collapse folder icons are impossible to distinguish.

* We need to expand the space for the flag icons.  At times, you can  
only see one icon.  Probably need to expand From also.  I Understand  
Subject is the most "important" information, but right now way it is  
taking up too much space.  (Maybe this is motivation to implement  
dynamically expanding columns.)

* Hiding groups of icons in the context menus are broken - double  
separator lines exist.  This was working fine before switching themes.

* Action buttons are broken - or at least are not intuitive since they  
require clicking on the text.  Clicking the surrounding space/icon  
doesn't work.  There needs to be a definable area to click on -  
namely, all space inside of the vertical separators.

* Is there a reason the font was changed?  I'm finding the current  
serif font (at least on Windows) more difficult to read - it is too  
narrow.  I much prefer the old font we were using.

* There is no feedback when clicking/hovering action buttons.

* There is no feedback when clicking/hovering refresh that something  
is actually happening.

* Popdown menus should automatically trigger on icon hover.  Don't  
think this was part of the previous theme, so this is instead a  
feature request.

michael

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Michael Slusarz [slusarz at horde.org]