[imp] imp usability questions

[Michael M Slusarz]

Quoting "John H. Bennett III" <bennettj at thebennetthome.com>:

> Hello,
>
> After spending some time using the latest stable version of imp, I  
> have two usability questions to better improve my user experience.
>
> 1. Is there an easy way to change the layout of the imp main screen?

Via the CSS files.

> I'm talking about the From, Subject, Date, and size layout.  Often  
> times, from my experience, and feedback to me, the from field isn't  
> long enough to display who the mail was sent from.  You see the  
> partial from info, then the ... appended to the end?  I hate to ask,  
> but is it possible to implement some sort of dynamic column  
> adjustment?

Sure, if you are willing to fund the work.  http://horde.org/consulting

> 2. The select all checkbox now seems to me to be an unusable  
> feature/function.  If I choose select all, I only want to delete all  
> the messages on that page, not every single message in the mailbox.

There is no concept of "pages" anymore.  Which is pretty much the  
standard UI paradigm these days.  I certainly hope that clicking the  
select all button does not select only the few rows I can see.  I  
can't think of another UI that does this.

The old "standard" IMP page uses pages.  But that was not because of  
UI reasons - instead it is due to resource-limitation issues.

All decent email clients show the entire mailbox in a single list (I'm  
looking at you Gmail).  Paging results is so 2001.

michael

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