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List:       kmail-devel
Subject:    Re: Why was the folder Properties dialog split up in 1.8?
From:       "Carsten Burghardt" <burghardt () kde ! org>
Date:       2005-03-09 15:09:06
Message-ID: 2716.149.235.163.216.1110380946.squirrel () 149 ! 235 ! 163 ! 216
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Malte S. Stretz sagte:
> Moin,
>
> I just looked the third time for some functionality in the folder
> Properties
> which was moved somewhere else... the new split of the Properties dialog
> is
> pretty counter-intuitive.  (It's in 1.8-rc1 but I guess there hasn't
> changed anything at this place.)
>
> Even though there's a tab view in the properties dialog, it now only
> contains the tab "General". To reach the expiry settings you now have to
> choose "Expire..." from the context menu.  In the Folder menu, only the
> old
> "Expire" command which doesn't open the configuration dialog is available.
> On the contrary, the "Mailing List Management" I use pretty often is only
> available via the Folder menu.
>
> To me, both dialogs are part of the "configuration" of a folder and the
> first place I look for such a thing is the Properties dialog.  (The same
> is
> actually true for the threading and HTML settings which IMO should be
> moved
> from the Folder menu to the Properties dialog, too.)  I just noticed that
> there's an "Assign Shortcut" (why is that in the context menu but the
> Mailing List Management isn't?) -- IMO that one should be in the
> Properties
> dialog, too.
>
> Was there some good reason to split this dialog up that I miss?  To
> summarize, I think all folder "settings" and handler belong to the
> Properties dialog, that would not only give the user one place to look for
> settings but also shrink the menus, especially the context menu.

The reason for the changes to the properties dialog is an usability study:
http://www.openusability.org/reports/view.php?group_id=55&repid=43

We agreed that the new layout is much better and thus changed it.


Carsten

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