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

[Michael M Slusarz]

Quoting Jan Schneider <jan at horde.org>:

> 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.

I personally find this very annoying.  At a minimum it should be  
limited to the '# messages' part of the text, rather than the entire  
DIV.  Especially since the info graphic disappears/reappears every  
time a message is selected.  And it should not be highlighted when a  
message is deselected (i.e. after reading a message and deleting it).

michael



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Michael Slusarz [slusarz at horde.org]