[Bug 693903] Re: ambiguous icons in toolbar CANCEL vs DELETE

2011-06-10 Thread Launchpad Bug Tracker
[Expired for evolution (Ubuntu) because there has been no activity for 60 days.] ** Changed in: evolution (Ubuntu) Status: Incomplete = Expired -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu.

[Bug 693903] Re: ambiguous icons in toolbar CANCEL vs DELETE

2011-04-11 Thread Mathieu Trudel-Lapierre
Sam, Cancel is quite important for users where some operations may take quite a while to be processed, such as in Exchange accounts. Regardless, I've set this bug to Incomplete precisely so that people who feel the issue is important can open the bug on the upstream tracker (in GNOME bugzilla,

[Bug 693903] Re: ambiguous icons in toolbar CANCEL vs DELETE

2011-04-09 Thread Sam Brightman
I think the little red X icons in the corners of every window (whence the window is deleted) are a pretty big clue that this shouldn't be used. In Firefox, there is no delete concept for a web page, so they are able to use it without concern for alternative meanings. Whilst the trash bin is an

[Bug 693903] Re: ambiguous icons in toolbar CANCEL vs DELETE

2011-01-20 Thread frederik.nnaji
i think there are many examples of how an interface can be designed to be consistent with its DE. Evolution stands out, in that its frontend obviously has no aim to be consistent with the remaining DE, and i'm not talking about any persons responsible for that, it is just the way the whole

[Bug 693903] Re: ambiguous icons in toolbar CANCEL vs DELETE

2011-01-19 Thread Mathieu Trudel-Lapierre
frederik, Could you please open a separate bug about the cancel button remaining sensitive? Also, I think we'd benefit from discussing this issue, at least as far as the order of buttons go, upstream. Please open a bug on the Gnome tracker about this, you can get all the information on how to do

[Bug 693903] Re: ambiguous icons in toolbar CANCEL vs DELETE

2010-12-23 Thread Mathieu Trudel-Lapierre
Thank you for taking the time to report this issue and helping to make Ubuntu better. Unfortunately, we cannot start working on this bug yet because it does not contain enough information. Please describe the following: - The Ubuntu release that this bug applies to; - The version of Evolution you

[Bug 693903] Re: ambiguous icons in toolbar CANCEL vs DELETE

2010-12-23 Thread frederik.nnaji
Hi Mathieu, It's the delete button. I want to delete e.g. Spammail manually.. or advertisement that i don't want to mark spam. Or all my facebook notifications at once. The button i intuitively select is the one at the end of the toolbar with the fat red x on it. I have that button in Maverick

Re: [Bug 693903] Re: ambiguous icons in toolbar CANCEL vs DELETE

2010-12-23 Thread frederik.nnaji
another reason for this problem is that the icon is always red. it is always sensitive, even when there is no current mail operation to cancel. this is something to be discussed in design, i guess.. On Thu, 2010-12-23 at 21:40 +, frederik.nnaji wrote: Hi Mathieu, It's the delete button.