Zitat von Michael M Slusarz <slus...@horde.org>:
Quoting Gunnar Wrobel <wro...@horde.org>:
The problem you describe obviously originates from the fact that it
was unclear to the user that she selected *all* messages. Looking
at our UI I must admit that this is hard to see. We display the
note "358 messages selected" but it is a faint gray and may be
difficult to see. I wonder if we could make this more obvious. Do
people think that this might be an option?
I'm not sure if making the message count in the preview box darker
is going to help out. I would argue that making it darker will make
it more difficult to read the screen in general - I think it is at
an appropriate color level now.
Design-wise I agree. I was wondering if it could make sense to push a
notification saying how many messages were selected. But somehow I
assume there are reasons that disallow this :)
As for indicating that all messages are selected: we clearly
activate the checkbox in the header when this is the case.
The user clicks on this box so she expects that a mark appears here.
This indicates only that clicking the box was successful. The outcome
of the action - selection of all messages - is indicated by marking
the selected messages and adding the "358 messages selected".
The cue that is visually stronger is the marking of the messages. Our
list viewport is sized so that it only displays full messages. There
is no visual hint that might tell the user that there were more
messages selected than what she sees on the screen - apart from the
faint grey note and the scroll pane on the right.
Other mail clients tend to display a list window that also displays
half messages - which may serve as a visual indication "that there is
more than what is currently displayed in the list window". I don't
want this for Imp and only add this to explain what I try to describe
above.
So I feel some minor tweaking in that area might be helpful.
This is MORE than most OS's do to indicate that, for example, all
files are selected in a folder.
Yes, I looked at how some of the alternative mail clients handle this
and it is usually not that much more obvious. The web mailers have a
tendency to work page oriented anyway but that is again something I
don't want for Imp.
I do however believe that we should take any such incident where users
report a problem with our UI serious and should try to figure out if
improvement is possible.
Cheers,
Gunnar
michael
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