[imp] Signature

[Jan Schneider]

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

> Em 22/01/2013 19:59, Michael J Rubinsky escreveu:
>>
>> 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
>>
>>
>>
>
> Does horde have a way of feature requesting and contributing by  
> undertermined people? For example, you open a ticket and then, after  
> approval, people (interested in that feature) could start "funding"  
> that ticket, so developers could get the deserved compensation for  
> implementing the feature. Maybe one person alone could not/would not  
> sponsor a feature request, but several persons/companies could/would  
> and that way everybody can benefit.

Not anymore. We used to have bounties but have dropped because them  
because they haven't been a great success in the long term.
-- 
Jan Schneider
The Horde Project
http://www.horde.org/