[imp] Signature

[Jan Schneider]

Zitat von Luis Felipe Marzagao <lfbm.andamentos at gmail.com>:

> On Mon, Jan 21, 2013 at 5:33 PM, Michael M Slusarz <slusarz at horde.org> wrote:
>> Quoting Luis Felipe Marzagao <lfbm.andamentos at gmail.com>:
>>
>>> As an alternative, I have proposed at least just the *displaying* of the
>>> signature (i. e., in another frame or something like that), which does not
>>> seem a hard task to accomplish (I mean, pull the signature text from db
>>> backend when selecting the identity in the compose window), specially
>>> because imp, like horde in general, is *extremely* well designed. But since
>>> even that idea was rejected
>>
>>
>> For the record... this idea wasn't "rejected".  It hasn't been implemented
>> yet because 1) I don't have any pressing need for it (meaning it will have
>> to be funded/coded by someone else) and 2) no reasonable UI display has yet
>> been determined.
>
> Okay, that's totally reasonable.
>
>>
>> For the latter, adding some sort of prominent "View My Signature!" link is
>> not desirable.  But somehow adding some sort of popup link mechanism to the
>
> No no, that's not what I had in mind! No links!
>
> I was thinking something like this (compose window):
>
> +--------------------------------+
> |                                  |   <-- Fields and email options
> |                                  |
> +--------------------------------+
> |                                  |
> |                                  |   <-- Text body
> |                                  |
> |                                  |
> |                                  |
> +--------------------------------+
> |                                  |
> |                                  |  <-- Non-editable displaying signature
> +--------------------------------+
>
> The scrolling of text body would not be affected by the underneath
> signature frame.
>
> Also, when the user changes the identity, the signature non-editable
> frame would be updated.

This is pretty much what I would suggest for a read-only signature  
display too. The signature section could additionally be toggleable  
(and hidden by default) to not waste the spare screen estate of  
compose windows.

>> From/Identity line COULD be an option (i.e. popping up a window displaying
>> basic details about the identity).  That would be non-intrusive to the
>> current compose screen flow, while allowing those that want to
>> "double-check" the signature information to be allowed to do that.
>>
>>
>> michael
>>
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