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List:       kmail-devel
Subject:    Re: [patch] Re: GUI consistency
From:       Don Sanders <sanders () kde ! org>
Date:       2002-08-30 3:57:04
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Bummer, this will create many conflicts for me.

I'm beginning to think it's best if I commit my patch sooner rather 
than later.

Don.

On Friday 30 August 2002 05:43, Martin Koller wrote:
> Here is another consistency patch, which fixes those menu and
> action entries inconsistent with the rest of kmail or KDE ...
> (Its only for the main window of kmail, nothing for the composer,
> etc.)
>
> I also added some icons to the std. actions, like copy in the RMB
> popup when copying a message to a folder, etc.
>
> On Monday 26 August 2002 09:18, Martin Koller wrote:
> > > > Therefore, I suggest to:
> > > > - move those actions which modify a message (currently in
> > > > Message menu: Edit, Copy To, Move To, Mark Message, Mark
> > > > Thread) to the "Edit" menu. These action are here to "Edit"
> > > > the "document"
> > >
> > > Hmm, that seems to be consistent with Konqueror. But I'm not
> > > sure if I like it. The problem I have with this is that
> > > Konqueror treats files and directories more or less the same.
> > > But we have messages _and_ folders. It's IMO not clear that the
> > > actions in the Edit menu only apply to messages and not to
> > > folders.
>
> OK, I let the "Message" menu with the copy to, move to, etc.
> entries as they are.
>
> > Konqueror also has files and folders. But you are right - it's
> > not easy to make here a good descision regarding how to handle
> > the folders. I was also thinking hard how to do it. So I decided,
> > that all actions shall be targeted to messages (like the ones in
> > File, Edit, etc. menus) - and the folders have a separate menu to
> > handle things, like "New Folder", "Delete Folder", ... So the
> > basic idea is: we deal with messages - folders are handled
> > separately (something like that)
> >
> > > > - rename the "Message" Menu to "Send", because all the
> > > > actions which are left here are subject to send a message,
> > > > like Reply, Forward, Bounce, ...
> > >
> > > I don't like "Send".
> >
> > OK - what's your proposal?
>
> I did not rename the menu. It's still "Message".
>
> I also added one new icon for "New Message to Mailing-list"

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