[imp] Signature

[Anton Köstlbacher]

Am 22.01.2013 12:47, schrieb 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.

+1 ("hidden/shown by default" should be a pref)