[horde] Fwd: Re: Interface design Horde 4.1/5.0

[Simon Brereton]

On 19 April 2012 12:02, Andreas Mauser <andreas at mauser.info> wrote:
> Hi,
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> ----- Nachricht von lst_hoe02 at kwsoft.de ---------
>  Datum: Thu, 19 Apr 2012 17:32:47 +0200
>    Von: lst_hoe02 at kwsoft.de
> Betreff: Re: [horde] Fwd: Re: Interface design Horde 4.1/5.0
>     An: horde at lists.horde.org
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>
>> Zitat von Gunnar Wrobel <wrobel at pardus.de>:
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>>> Gunnar Wrobel <wrobel at pardus.de> schrieb:
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>>> "Nicolás Ilich Samus" <nicolas at unq.edu.ar> schrieb:
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>>>> I'm not sure if it's obvious or a detail, but i think is important to
>>>> hold the menus at top if the user scrolls down in the application.
>>>> It's really annoying in an application when is needed scroll up to
>>>> make an action or open another app in a new tab and then scroll down
>>>> again to return to the working point.
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>>> The dynamic interfaces we currently have for imp and kronolith work
>>> with a fixed screen size. So I would say that is the direction we
>>> are heading towards.
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>>> If we keep the static views it might be more difficult there. We
>>> don't have a fixed menu for them right now and I'm not certain the
>>> effort would be worth it.
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>> We have disabled the dynamic views after many support calls from
>> people using it and only use the static as of now. Not having the
>> static view or something similar would probably mean not using Horde
>> anymore in our case.
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>
> I support this statement.
>
> When using Dynamic Views I often get the feeling that not everything plays
> together, not all is logically aligned, and the most annoying case (at this
> time) is that not all is dynamic at the moment. Arising questions.
>
> I could see a fully dynamic and logically aligned horde in the future, or a
> horde not being (easily) used anymore.
>
> Please dont feel hit on the leg, for I just want also help make horde a
> super Groupware at all.
> And to mention, I still feel that Horde is best choice, still, in things of
> Groupware.

The team have stated on several occasions that Horde4 is not perfect,
but it had to make the changes to make Horde5 a realistic opportunity.

No one should give up on dynamic view because people in the
organisation are resistant to change.

Simon