[kdepim-usability] Folder Properties

[Ingo Klöcker]

On Wednesday 03 November 2004 19:20, Jan Muehlig wrote:
> Hi,
>
> after lots of thoughts and many discussions, we have now developed a
> list of suggestions for the KMail Folder Properties.
>
> It can be found at:
> http://www.openusability.org/reports/?group_id=55

Woah! I'm really impressed.

2.1
Is Shortcut really an important setting for normal users?

2.3
Compact: Yes, we should remove it from the RMB. We should probably still 
keep it in the Folder menu (maybe under something like Advanced 
Actions?).

2.3.1 Expiry
I think there should be three buttons:
[Expire Now] [Save Settings] [Cancel]

Of course, Expire Now should also save the settings. Save Settings 
should just save the settings and close the dialog. This would make the 
note superfluous.

In the Folder menu we could still have "Expire Now" (under Advanced 
Actions).

2.3.2 Belonging
Very good suggestion. This would also remove the main reason for making 
the folder properties dialog modal. I guess we should go for the 
Konqueror-like solution (cascading menus) with the additional browse 
which would open the folder selection dialog which one gets if one 
presses 'm' or 'c'.

2.3.3 Mailing lists
The new dialog looks very good. But there's a small problem. Sometimes 
there are two ways to invoke an action, e.g. for unsubscribing from 
kdepim-usability there is
  https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kdepim-usability
and
  mailto:kdepim-usability-request at kde.org?subject=unsubscribe.
That's why the old dialog had the weird "Preferred handler" selection.

Except for list archives all actions (including Post to List) could have 
a mailto: URL and a normal URL. Should we simply show two input fields 
below each other and duplicate the buttons? Should we add something 
like "via email"/"with browser"?

2.3 (again? ;-) )

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You've missed one set of options (which is only available for IMAP; or 
maybe it's not even in KMail 1.7?), namely ACL (access control lists) 
which is used to change the permissions of the folders (to make it 
possible to share folders). This will also be used by only 1% of the 
users. Should this also be in the RMB ("Change Permissions (ACL)"?


Apart from the few comments above I like your suggestions very much. 
Thanks a lot for all the work and thought you've put into this.

Regards,
Ingo

P.S.: It would be cool if you could fix your webserver so that it 
doesn't tell Konqueror that the PDF file with the report is of type 
application/binary because this makes it difficult to open the file 
with KDE.
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