On Thu, 24 Jun 2010 15:40:08 -0700, Brandon Davidson <[email protected]> wrote: > > On 6/24/10 5:14 AM, "A.L.E.C" <[email protected]> wrote: >> I've prepared a screen for a new compose window and I've got various >> opinions abut this. What's your opinion? Question is for svn-trunk >> users, because the idea was to make compose look more unified with the >> rest of the current UI. > > I'm not sure I like it - one of my favorite things about Roundcube is that > it looks and feels like a traditional 'thick' mail client in a lot of ways > that make people feel very comfortable with it. The new compose view is > pretty drastically different, and I'm afraid it would scare people away, > back to our old webmail system that I'm trying to lure them off of. People > fear change :( > > Maybe if there was an option to pick the layout? That would probably be > harder to support, but I think I'd find myself maintaining a patch to > retain > the old layout if I didn't have an option to switch to it.
I just wanted to say I agree with Brandon. One of the major benefits of Roundcube is that its interface is familiar and easy for new users to understand. The new layout is pretty foreign, I wouldn't mind it as an option, but the present compose screen seems like a better default to me. _______________________________________________ List info: http://lists.roundcube.net/dev/
