[imp] A suggestion from a user

[Brent J. Nordquist]

On Fri, 13 Oct 2000, Jie Gao <J.Gao@isu.usyd.edu.au> wrote:

> Just forwarding a suggestion from one of our imp users:
> 
> > Currently when the LDAP search brings up its results, no results are
> > "selected". This means that when the user clicks on the "Cc", "Bcc",
> > "To", or "Add to contacts" buttons, the search results is not pasted in.
> >
> > In order for the search result to be pasted in, you have to click on the
> > little "Select" button, but what would be much simpler would be if the
> > "select" value was simple set to ON for the visible result. Can this be
> > done?

Thanks for sending this along; personally I'm always interested in
usability suggestions, because personally I'm such a poor UI designer.  
:-)

The hitch is, what if the LDAP search returns multiple results?  If you
just auto-select the first one, some users might not notice that there's a
drop-down box there, and then will be asking, "Hey... that's not the Smith
I wanted."

But perhaps guessing and being right X% of the time (where it's 100% for
just one result) is an improvement, and no worse than the current
behavior.  Thoughts?

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Brent J. Nordquist <bjn@horde.org>
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