[dev] [commits] Horde branch develop updated. ab8291f8906bbbae519f302fa7ea94d515bfd21f

[Jan Schneider]

Zitat von Michael M Slusarz <slusarz at horde.org>:

> Quoting Jan Schneider <jan at horde.org>:
>
>> commit ab8291f8906bbbae519f302fa7ea94d515bfd21f
>> Author: Jan Schneider <jan at horde.org>
>> Date:   Thu Jul 12 19:55:36 2012 +0200
>>
>>    Revert "Shrink New Message Font Size"
>>
>>    The "New" button is central piece of the new design, you cannot  
>> simply change
>>    it completely like that. The small font doesn't work at all with  
>> the design of
>>    the button, and it's inconsistent with the other apps.
>>    That it wraps doesn't have anything to do with the screen size,  
>> but with the
>>    sidebar width. As an alternative, I suggest we add some code so  
>> that you can
>>    drag the sidebar only so narrow that the button doesn't wrap.
>
> When previously doing analytics, we discovered the majority of the  
> users NEVER use anything other than the INBOX.  So enforcing a wider  
> default sidebar is detrimental to more users.  The default sidebar  
> is wide enough as it is.
>
> The real question I have after using the UI for a bit is why the  
> refresh button is lumped with the Compose message button?  These two  
> have NOTHING in common.  It can be argued that they are the two most  
> important actions in the sidebar, and they get less space than every  
> other action there.  I have multiple times clicked on Compose  
> message instead of refresh (popping up an unwanted compose window)  
> and vice versa (clicked and waited for a compose window to open, and  
> nothing happened because I clicked on refresh).
>
> It seems to me that lumping these two actions is not consistent with  
> the other applications (e.g. turba, nag).  So that seems to be the  
> issue: the refresh button needs to be moved, in which case font size  
> should not be an issue.

Good point. We will have a button there that makes sense in other  
applications though. This is going to be the place for the quick-add  
buttons in Kronolith and Nag.

I don't have any objections against finding a more suitable place for  
a refresh link/button in IMP. That should be a place that could be  
used consistently in other ajax apps in the future though.
But that won't solve the problem completely for other apps.

Another issue that's related: in the future the sidebar should be  
resizable in any app, whether dynamic or traditional. Originally I  
planned to use a common width setting for all applications, but that  
won't work with the autodetected min-width that I suggested.

-- 
Jan Schneider
The Horde Project
http://www.horde.org/