[imp] proposed changes to imp compose UI

[Fábio Almeida]

I'd vote for that. I had the same issue with some customers and the
screenshot really looks better organized. By the way, let's face it, those
colorschemes that come with imp are ugly. I'm no designer but I'm sure
there's someone out there who could give it some attention.


2008/10/9 Matthew Dunham <matthew.dunham at ic.ucsb.edu>

> Many of my customers were confused by the IMP attachment handling so
> I've done some UI revisions to the message composition screen.
>
> In the current UI, the attachment "button" in compose options doesn't
> take any obvious action -- my end users were expecting a popup like the
> "address book" or "special characters" options. And the esoteric
> attachment options (e.g. "attachment" vs "inline" disposition and
> attachment description) are confusing to users who have come from other
> webmail services.
>
> I simplified this by removing attachment button, relocating the message
> attachment section just above the message body, and removing the
> extraneous options to keep the UI clean. Also, I changed the units of
> Max Attachment Size to MB -- bytes didn't make a lotta sense here. I've got
> a screenshot of the changes here:
>
>  http://ic.ucsb.edu/~matthewdunham/misc/compose_screenshot.png<http://ic.ucsb.edu/%7Ematthewdunham/misc/compose_screenshot.png>
>
> If these are acceptable I'd love to see them integrated into the trunk.
> I've included patches (to 4.3), but these could maybe use a bit of
> review to ensure they're properly Horde-ified.
>
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