[horde] Interface design Horde 4.1/5.0

[Luis Felipe Marzagao]

Em 09-01-2012 17:00, Jānis escreveu:
> Citējot Gunnar Wrobel <wrobel at pardus.de>
> Mon, 09 Jan 2012 19:14:23 +0100:
>
>> Hello Jānis,
> ...
>> The main reason for giving such a redesign a high priority is the 
>> fact that we have been told many times that Horde looks outdated in 
>> comparison to similar applications.
>>
>> My own experience has been kind of desastrous in that regard: Kolab 
>> Systems is currently trying to move the Kolab ecosystem from Horde to 
>> Roundcube. To a large part due to the fact that is is being 
>> considered "to look slicker".
>>
>> Roundcube is not the only contender in that area. Google, Tine 2.0, 
>> Open-Xchange, Zarafa all offer frontends with a more consistent 
>> interface than what we provide at the moment.
>
> the next is not about Horde:
>
> I have impression that most of "interface improvements" are mostly 
> marketoid-driven efforts (because "we must have a new product with 
> astonishing look") and during the process the most important thing 
> often is forgotten: the product, besides looking "super-duper", must 
> do the work it is intended to and, in the best case, as glitch-less as 
> possible.
>
> I am very poor indicator as I hate the progress for the sake of 
> progress, but what I see during my working day at some institution 
> employing around 130 people:
>
> - people mostly hates Windows7 and stick with XpSP3;
> - people are mostly conservative and stick with MSO2003 instead of 
> falling in love with MSO2007+
>

Sure! Users are almost always reluctant to changes, and that applies to 
any field, not just the software area. I account that to a huge laziness 
problem most people have. Thank God in spite of that we always see 
things changing. If developers were to succumb to this kind of users' 
claims, we would be completely lost. :)

> Of course, there are about 10-15% who thinks that the best tools for 
> the work are the ones from bleeding edge. The reason behind it I see 
> as the extremely high level of software piracy for private use on one 
> hand and the popularity of software-bundled laptops with the latest 
> releases of Win+MSO on the second.
>
> ---
>
> If I may suggest one functionality for the Horde from proprietary 
> software world - ability to change the attachment and save the changed 
> one with the letter (as Outlook does) - I did not met any other 
> product offering it and I must add, that it is very popular among 
> bureaucracy.
>

I never saw this feature, maybe that's why I don't get it. I don't 
understand why would that be different from saving the att. in your 
disk, altering it, and then attaching it again to a reply...

> Janis
>