[horde] Interface design Horde 4.1/5.0

[Simon Brereton]

On Apr 20, 2012 8:49 AM, "Leena Heino" <Leena.Heino at uta.fi> wrote:
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> On Thu, 19 Apr 2012, Michael M Slusarz wrote:
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>> I, too, am interested in this answer.  Especially since our experience
has been just the opposite: nobody uses the traditional mode anymore - only
the dynamic (and smartmobile) mode, for IMP at least.  All paid development
requests in the last 3-4 years have been exclusively for the dynamic view.
 I personally am no longer actively adding features for the traditional
view.
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> Positive feedback:
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> * Smartmobile mode was liked (once users found it). Some had a feeling of
slightly dissapointment when they could not answer or compose messages
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> * Some users felt that the dynamic UI was more modern and made some
operations easier and faster
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> * Users liked that they were still able to use the Traditional mode,
because they knew how to get things done on that UI.

unfortunately for admin, the UI will always change.  If horde were
abandoned for TB or Outlook, users would have to get used to that.

> Negative feedback on Traditional view:
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> * General: Does not seem to work on smaller screen sizes (under 1024
pixels wide) when WebKit browser are used eg. Chrome, Safari: The left
panel and icons get all mixed up
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> * IMP, Kronolith: Users would like to be able to Print the whole message
or Print the whole Month
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> Negative feedback on Dynamic view:
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> * General: Some users felt that the new UI was just too different to be
able to use it efficiently or had a feeling they did not have to the time
to learn the new interface or the new ways of doing things

See above.  I hope you told them to grow up :)

> * General: Kronolith dynamic view looked very different from the dynamic
view of IMP.
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> * General: At the time there was no dynamic view on other apps like
Turba, Horde, Nag, Mnemo, Gollem.
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> * General: Problems with older Browser versions: Browsers in older Nokia
phones, old Firefox versions like 2.x and 3.x.
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> * IMP, Mailbox view: Font size was smaller than it was in traditional view

Agreed.

> * IMP, Mailbox view: Select all selected all messages, not just those
that vere shown on the screen

Again.  Horde/imp finally matches software capability and users complain
it's bad.  But for years they complain that imp is not a real client
because it's in the browser.

> * IMP, Compose: Some browsers eg. Chrome on default settings seemed to
want extra confirmation when pasting text from another application
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> * IMP, Print: Unable to print the whole message including the information
about attached files.
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> * Kronolith, Month view: by default did not show same information as it
did on the traditional view (missing event times and locations)
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> * Kronolith, UI: users were not able to find how to get back to IMP

Annoys me too - hopefully the redesign will fix that.

Simon