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Hi Jonathan,

On Tuesday 03 February 2009 18:15:37 Jonathan Marten wrote:
> The bug refers to merging all of the various dialogues relating to
> folder properties - "Mailing List Management", "Expire" and "Shortcut" -
> into tabs of a single folder "Properties" dialogue.  Maybe a
> contentious issue, but it's been something that has been annoying me
> for some time - and not just myself, the bug has 3 duplicates and 115
> votes.
>
> I know that the original tabbed dialogue was split up after a
> usability study.  However, that was four years ago... since then, more
> options have been added to the menus (both menu bar and folder popup),
> including some very obscure ones which certainly don't need to be
> available with just a click.  The "Properties" dialogue has also been
> changed back from a simple dialogue to a tabbed one, having introduced
> the "Templates" tab.  Unfortunately both the original study on
> openusability.org, and the gmane discussion referred to in the bug,
> seem to be now unavailable.
>
> In the absence of specifics from those, I'd be inclined to follow the
> general usability principle that context menus should be as brief as
> possible and should contain only frequently-used options.  So the
> options that are now in the tabbed dialogue should be removed from the
> context menu.  If that confuses some people who now expect them to be
> there, then they can be reenabled by a hidden option.  All of the
> options can be left in the menu bar "Folder" menu by default, anyone
> who would like to remove them from there too can edit their rc file.
> Those options from either menu will lead to the appropriate page of
> the combined "Properties" dialogue.
>
> Prototype screen shots are at:
>
>    http://www.keelhaul.me.uk/kde/popupmenu.png
>    http://www.keelhaul.me.uk/kde/props1.png
>    http://www.keelhaul.me.uk/kde/props2.png
>    http://www.keelhaul.me.uk/kde/props3.png
>    http://www.keelhaul.me.uk/kde/props4.png
>    http://www.keelhaul.me.uk/kde/props5.png
>
> The final "Maintenance" tab is new; it contains some information on
> the folder/index files, and the compaction options.  The potentially
> dangerous "Rebuild Index" and "Rebuild IMAP Cache" options are only
> here, not in the popup menu - a casual user shouldn't really be using
> these options.
>
> Any comments?  If it is worth going ahead, then I'll post the code
> changes on reviewboard.

What I definitely agree with is moving things like "Rebuild Index" out of t=
he=20
context menu. See also Aaron's mail from November, he has some points about=
=20
the order of the entries (which changed with the SoC merge), it would be ni=
ce=20
if you can include that.

In general, I also tend to agree with the rework of the folder properties=20
dialog.
But I would really like the input of people who were around when the usabil=
ity=20
changes were made (Till?), maybe they know the reason for some of the chang=
es.
Regards,
Thomas

Regards,
Thomas

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