On Mon, 2003-07-14 at 10:51, Michael J. Rensing wrote: > 3) When discussing the pros and cons of features such as the Shortcuts, > I can't help thinking that there are probably as many users who want a > feature as who feel that it is unnecessary. Can't such items continue to > be configurable options? For example, I can hide the Shortcut bar and/or > the Folder tree and not use them if I don't like them. However, if I > want them, I simply make them visible. Seems to me from the user point > of view that this is the best of both worlds.
The problem is the maintenance overhead. Shortcut bar had to be ported to the Gtk2 platform for the 1.4 release. The initial port had drag and drop inoperative, among other things. At one point, shortcut bar led the 1.4 bug count for gal. So while keeping it around seems like a "best of both worlds" scenario, it is instead a time drainer that keeps us from dedicating development effort toward supporting other features. AFAICT, the shortcut bar provides no functionality that couldn't be provided by other planned/existing UI elements. I think we just need to identify the use cases and work to support them with the other UI elements. -- Mike Kestner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> _______________________________________________ evolution maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/evolution
