Closed
Bug 31753
Opened 24 years ago
Closed 24 years ago
Create "Display" pref pane
Categories
(SeaMonkey :: MailNews: Message Display, enhancement, P3)
SeaMonkey
MailNews: Message Display
Tracking
(Not tracked)
VERIFIED
FIXED
M17
People
(Reporter: BenB, Assigned: BenB)
References
Details
(Whiteboard: Waiting for UI discussion/decision)
Attachments
(6 files)
Rename "Messages" pref pane to "Sending" or "Composing" and create a new pane, "Display". Reorder pref. Currently, we have a message pref pane, which keeps prefs for displaying ("incoming"), sending msgs and quoting/forwarding. Additionally, the top-level mailnews pref pane also keeps prefs for displaying, font families and quoting formatting, which should be moved to "Messages", if we had enough space, but we don't, so move them to the new Display pane together with the other display-related prefs in Messages. So, the new structure of the pref panes would be: - Top-level Mailnews - The unnamed box with "Play sound" etc. - "Messenger Start Page" - Display (notice, that all prefs are related to plain text) - "For incoming messages" (find new name) - "Font", holds current "Display plain text messages and articles with" - Composition - "Forwarding and replying to messages" - "Formatting", holds current "For outgoing messages" (Attention: Name clash with pref pane "Formatting". Rename the latter?) Fixing should be easy (I can do that, if you give me enough time), but what do you think?
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Comment 1•24 years ago
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I have working code for this in my tree. I'll attach screenshots. Patches will follow on request or after positive decision.
Status: NEW → ASSIGNED
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Comment 2•24 years ago
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Comment 3•24 years ago
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Comment 4•24 years ago
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Updated•24 years ago
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Summary: [Suggestion] Create "Display" pref pane → [Suggestion] [FIXED] Create "Display" pref pane
Whiteboard: Fixed in my tree, waiting for approval and review
Target Milestone: M17
Comment 5•24 years ago
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Makes sense to me. What do you think Jennifer?
Definitely some good ideas here. Similar to some changes I have also been working on. I think many of the Mail prefs panels need some re-organization. I have been trying to look at all the Mail Prefs and re-organize them into more logical, TASK oriented groups. I think we need to review all the Mail prefs and make sure all of them are still valid and determine what additional ones will need to be added before we agree on a final design. I am away at a class today but will post some of my ideas here tomorrow.
Comment 7•24 years ago
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Marking [feature], reassigning to Ben, cc'ing myself
Assignee: phil → mozilla
Status: ASSIGNED → NEW
Summary: [Suggestion] [FIXED] Create "Display" pref pane → [FEATURE] [FIXED] Create "Display" pref pane
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Comment 8•24 years ago
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ACCEPT. Assuming, I get the OK, who will review/check in?
Status: NEW → ASSIGNED
Comment 9•24 years ago
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I'd like to have hangas review it. We should cover this in tomorrow's UI meeting.
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Updated•24 years ago
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Severity: normal → enhancement
Comment 10•24 years ago
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We started to discuss Preferences at the last issues meeting. Reviewed the "Mail and Newsgroups" top level stuff, "Composing Messages" and "Reading Messages" panels (wording still open). Grouping, names, layout, etc. still need work but here are some updates. Team is still working out what will need to be removed and what still needs to be added. As we know more about what is in/out, we can better group and arrange the items. As I get more info, I'll supply it here.
Comment 11•24 years ago
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Comment 12•24 years ago
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Comment 13•24 years ago
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Comment 14•24 years ago
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Jen, moving the Window Settings to the main pane is a good idea. "Viewing" You turned groups into "headers" (e.g. "Display plain text quoted messages:"). I like groups better, because they are much easier to grasp atthe first view and are also more exact about where the group ends. E.g. you don't need the header (or group) "When viewing plain text messages:" at all, if you use a group for the quoting prefs. If you bother using nested groups (I don't): I don't think, both TXT and HTML viewing prefs will fit in one panel. We have at least one more TXT viewing pref (see bug #31906) and there are many HTML viewing prefs to come; I created bug #31907 to track the latter. I didn't yet create the dependencies in 31907, but there're surely 3 or 4 prefs (in addition to the ones you already have) to come. One more suggestion: I'm a hierarchy freak, so some will propably disagree, but I really think, the pref panels would be easier to grasp, if they were more hierarchical. E.g. both "Adressing" and "Formatting" could go under "Composition". E.g. we would have Mailnews + Viewing Messages + [Plain text] + [HTML] + Composing Messagea + Formatting + Addressing + Return Reciepts + Disk Space Two panels are in brackets, because we don't have general display settings yet and an empty pane is awful. We'll propaly need "Viewing text messages" and "Viewing HTML messages" instead, although I don't like it.
Summary: [FEATURE] [FIXED] Create "Display" pref pane → Create "Display" pref pane
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Updated•24 years ago
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Whiteboard: Fixed in my tree, waiting for approval and review → Waiting for UI discussion/decision
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Comment 15•24 years ago
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*** Bug 23326 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 16•24 years ago
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Hierarchy is good, but some potential problems: Adds more levels to the UI. Users have to dig further down to find the features they are looking for. How we are implementing prefs now, the top level hierarchy items have contents of their own as well. So even though you are just adding the hierarchy to help clarify the organization, they would need to have their own content of prefs. So, for your proposed hierarchy: Mailnews (currently has its own content of prefs) + Viewing Messages (would need its own content of prefs, what do you put here that isn't already in Plain or HTML sub panels?) + [Plain text] + [HTML] + Composing Messages (would need its own content of prefs, what do you put here?) + Formatting + Addressing I'll spend more time with Prefs soon (hopefully).
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Comment 17•24 years ago
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Jen, yes, I know, that's what I meant with the last paragraph, but I don't have a real solution. "Composing" could contain the composing pref panel, that is suggested here, e.g. in the attachments.
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Comment 18•24 years ago
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Has been fixed by someone else (dunno, who).
Status: ASSIGNED → RESOLVED
Closed: 24 years ago
Resolution: --- → FIXED
Comment 19•24 years ago
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laurel - can you go through and verify this? :-)
QA Contact: lchiang → laurel
Comment 20•24 years ago
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Our current spec calls for Message Display and Message Composition panels. Some of the changes are already in current builds, other pref work to make to spec is scheduled for m18 in various bugs. Marking this verified.
Status: RESOLVED → VERIFIED
Updated•20 years ago
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Product: Browser → Seamonkey
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