On Wed, 2011-10-26 at 20:30 +0200, Dan Vratil wrote: > On Wednesday 26 of October 2011 19:01:14 Pete Biggs wrote: > > > But I'd like to hear from all of you what do you think about the
> > > > Is it possible in the re-write to include selecting different formats - > > preferably at print-time, but possibly in the setup? How about > > user-defined formats? > > What exactly do you mean by format? Something like templates? I don't see > much > use in it. By "format" I mean the way the print out is formatted - I suppose yes, template would be an equivalent - I just come from a Fortran background. > Let's make one perfect design instead of many average designs. > Well yes, a good ideal, but I doubt it is really achievable. I suspect that the programmers and designers of all the examples you gave have been through a similar process - with the commercial ones like Outlook and Gmail there has probably been such things as design panels, usability experts, and, shudder, focus groups involved in it, and they still come up with different formats. All I was really thinking about was being able to have a choice of, say, 3 or 4 different layouts of the email printout that the user can choose from - ranging from a compact utilitarian format to a more presentable format for showing clients; perhaps a coloured version as well as monochrome. That sort of thing. Since this is largely CSS driven, then the different formats shouldn't be too much extra programming. For the user defined formats all I was thinking was allowing companies to put their own corporate branding on email print outs. The alternative is, of course to have a single format that is distinctively and recognisably Evolution. > > > > Also what about selecting what to print - i.e. which headers, or which > > attachments? > > > > You can either print all headers or standard headers (From, To, Date, > Subject, > CC) which I'd call absolute minimum for determining context of the email. Any > other headers are usually not user-friendly and make no sense to be printed > unless you really really want them and then 'all headers' is the right choice. If someone wishes to give the printout to a third party, then it may not be appropriate to include things like email addresses on the printout, that's all. > > If you want to print a particular attachment, you can print it individually > via it's popup menu. It was more to stop the printing of some attachments - in the example you gave, the image attachments are printed along with the text - some MUAs, especially some of the webmail clients, are keen to liberally splatter stupid icons and advertising all over the mail. It would be good to be able to not print those for example. Also, what determines which attachments are printed and which aren't? Obviously, as per your example, images are printed - but what about PDF attachments? Or text attachments? > These additional options would made the printing process > more complicated by adding at least one more dialog, since we can't change > the > default "Printing" dialog. Ah, OK. So there is no way of inserting extra options into the (presumably) Gnome print dialogue box? Can there be an extra context menu item for the email of "print with options" along side the standard "print"? But none of these things are show stoppers - the quest is, as you say, for the ideal system. But everything is a compromise, and if in the end it's too complicated to put in to Evo, then that's fine. Ultimately I would prefer a more compact design over a spread out one. P. _______________________________________________ evolution-list mailing list evolution-list@gnome.org To change your list options or unsubscribe, visit ... http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/evolution-list
