[imp] Signature

[Luis Felipe Marzagao]

On Mon, Jan 21, 2013 at 7:50 PM, Ralf Lang <lang at b1-systems.de> wrote:
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> Am 21.01.2013 22:37, schrieb Luis Felipe Marzagao:
>> On Mon, Jan 21, 2013 at 5:38 PM, Ralf Lang <lang at b1-systems.de>
>> wrote: I think your main idea in previous discussions was "use
>> templates/drafts, not identities/signatures". I'll try that. Let's
>> see how it works out and disarm a little bit. Let's not play
>> Lennart.
>>
>>> The problem with this approach is that simply clicking "new"
>>> will always be much faster than choosing a previous template in a
>>> specific folder, not to mention the hassle of creating the
>>> template(s) in the first place. Also, if we are meant to work
>>> with template as a workaround for signatures, there wouldn't be
>>> much of a purpose to the signature field in identity section.
>
> Well, signatures are text meant to not change regularly. If you
> regularly need to remove, say, your phone number, you better have two
> identities. Still, they should be displayed at some place.
> Non-editable signatures are not new to my users. Undisplayed
> signatures are.

I agree. I don't think people want to edit their signature. I think
the need of turning on/off the signature "on the fly" is much more
present than editing the signature's text itself.

This, of course, can be achieved with identities. In one identity you
have the signature. In another you don't. Seeing the non-editable
signature there, below the msg, might induce the user to this thought
(of using identities). Otherwise, unless someone shows him there is a
possibility of multiple identities, he may not have this idea by his
own, specially because many times it's not the user who creates his
own default identity, but the sysadmin or an automated script,
depending on the case.

>
> I will investigate templates/draft answers. I like the way they are
> provided in whups as ready-made boilerplate answers.

I don't use drafts a lot, but if I'm not mistaken the draft will only
get the signature added after you hit the "send" button, just like any
new message. So I guess there's no need to change anything internally.
It's just a matter of showing the signature, I mean, in the template
layer only, since the signature will still be pulled from the same
place (the identity preferences).

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