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List:       kmail-devel
Subject:    Re: Toolbars
From:       "Aaron J. Seigo" <aseigo () kde ! org>
Date:       2003-11-09 23:47:49
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On Sunday 09 November 2003 04:34, Ingo Klöcker wrote:
> Did you not bump the version number of the rc files for a specific
> reason?

KDE devels miss nothing. i love it. i knew someone would ask! i thought of 
that after i sent it, and have already made that change locally =)

> Apart from that you have green light for kmmainwin.rc although I wonder
> why you didn't remove the address book icon from the main window
> toolbar.

i struggled with that one... it makes more sense to have that from the main 
interface of kmail than from the composer... thinking about it over some 
ice-cream, i agree that it should be taken away as well... it makes little 
sense to have it there in stand-alone mode and virtually no sense when used 
in kontact...

> kmcomposer.rc: What I don't understand is why you want to remove the
> sign icon but not the encrypt icon from the toolbar. I guess because
> IYHO people normally don't disable signing once they've enabled it.
> Still I think signing and encryption should both be visible. After all
> the signing icon not only serves as action to dis-/enable signing but
> also as indicator that signing is enabled. Furthermore signing and
> encryption definitely complement one another. It would IMHO be odd if
> one of the two actions was missing. I'm okay with the other changes.

not only is signing something one usually sets up once and leaves that way, 
but encrypting is different in another way: signing relates to YOUR identiy 
while encrypting relates to THEIR identity. so the choice to encrypt or not 
really complements the action of sending an email TO someone, as who you send 
it to usually dictates whether you encrypt it or not.

> One thing I don't like about toolbar changes in general is that the
> changes will always be forced on all users and not only on new users
> (provided the version number of the rc file is increased). Especially
> for users who don't know how to re-add icons they've got used to this
> will be a PITA.

all the more reason to think toolbars through carefully from the beginning... 
a poor reply, i know, but i'm not sure what else can be done... not doing 
anything is hardly a choice right now, given the current state of toolbars. 
=/

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Aaron J. Seigo
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