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

[Jan Schneider]

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

> 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).

How about now? It more focused, i.e. it only happens when selecting  
all messages, and doesn't make the graphic disappear. We can still  
apply it to a smaller portion of the info area, though I already find  
it much less annoying now.
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