[imp] Signature

[Michael J Rubinsky]

Quoting Jan Schneider <jan at horde.org>:

> 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.

+1

-- 
mike

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