[imp] migrating users from traditional to dynamic interface (message deletion)

[Jan Schneider]

Zitat von Michael M Slusarz <slusarz at horde.org>:

> Quoting Gunnar Wrobel <wrobel at horde.org>:
>
>> Zitat von Michael M Slusarz <slusarz at horde.org>:
>>
>>> Quoting Gunnar Wrobel <wrobel at horde.org>:
>>>
>>>> The problem you describe obviously originates from the fact that  
>>>> it was unclear to the user that she selected *all* messages.  
>>>> Looking at our UI I must admit that this is hard to see. We  
>>>> display the note "358 messages selected" but it is a faint gray  
>>>> and may be difficult to see. I wonder if we could make this more  
>>>> obvious. Do people think that this might be an option?
>>>
>>> I'm not sure if making the message count in the preview box darker  
>>> is going to help out.  I would argue that making it darker will  
>>> make it more difficult to read the screen in general - I think it  
>>> is at an appropriate color level now.
>>
>> Design-wise I agree. I was wondering if it could make sense to push  
>> a notification saying how many messages were selected. But somehow  
>> I assume there are reasons that disallow this :)
>
> A notification message?  That seems a bit extreme for an action as  
> basic as selecting messages.  I don't want to see a notification  
> every time I open a message that says "You have opened a message!".   
> Not tremendously useful.  Notification messages are generally for  
> things that happened outside of the view/knowledge of the user.

How about the highlighting that I just added to develop? This could  
even be added to more focused events, i.e. only when really selecting  
all messages.

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