Hello Jim,
I have looked at this problem a bit, and have arrived at a proposal for
a GUI: http://primates.ximian.com/~anna/attribution_1.png . You may also
download a glade file for this (helpful if you want to use the standard
Evolution spacing, padding and mneuomics) from here:
http://primates.ximian.com/~anna/attribution.glade .
The blue text I used in the design looks a bit crappy (and is a bit too
small) because I gimp'ed it in there (glade being unable to add blue
text to an entry.) At any rate, this screenshot should give you a sense
of how I envision this working: the user can type in the entry, but must
use the "Tokens" option menu to add a token, to ensure that proper
syntax is used.
My feeling is that this does not really need to be configurable by
account-- I would instead place this option in the bottom portion of the
"General" tab of the Composer Preferences page in the new configuration
dialog.
What do you think?
Anna
Il mar, 2002-05-28 alle 12:02, Jim Meyer ha scritto:
Hello!
So now that there's a way to store and retrieve a customized reply
attribution there probably ought to be a way to change it from the UI.
As it's a property of an account, somewhere in the Account Editor
(Tools->Mail Settings->Account->Edit) would seem appropriate.
I was originally thinking it'd be another line in the Identity tab, but
Jeff Stedfast pointed out that entering "On or about %H:%M on %d %m %Y,
%%s said:" wasn't likely to be regarded as a pleasing interface. He's
absolutely right.
So what should such an interface look like? A whole other tab? A popup
dialog? Hmmmm?
Thanks!
--j, pondering puzzledly.
p.s. many thanks to Jeff who provided guidance and a prod at the right
moment to get me to finish this.
--
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