(In reply to Josiah Bruner [:JosiahOne] (needinfo > CC) from comment #109) > Created attachment 8544150 > Example sketch.
I'm not sure if the sketch UI will work out well as presented; imo it might easily create confusion and wrong assumptions about this feature. >From selector in compose UI of current release has simultaneous double >function: Select a predefined sender identity as a set consisting of a) From-field of sent msg: John Doe <john(at)gmail.com> b) SMTP-Server & login for sending: smtp.gmail.com, port: 465, SSL/TLS, normal password, username: john(at)gmail.com If I understand this bug correctly, for a given(!) identity selected by user from the dropdown, we want to allow editing a) (From-field) only, but we still rely on getting b) SMTP-Server from the original identity. "Enter a custom address...", more so at the bottom(!) of the dropdown list, wrongly suggests that user could create a new address/identity at the same level as the other identities in the list, which is not the case. Instead, the UI should reflect that we only allow window-dressing of the From-field text value within a predefined identity (which btw will not work for many commonly used mail servers, so we also need to think in terms of ux-error-prevention!). I agree with Josiah's comment 102 (supported by Ben's comment 107): (In reply to Josiah Bruner [:JosiahOne] (needinfo > CC) from comment #102) > Comment on attachment 8507858 > 87987.png > > I think what we should do is ... show the drop down if they > click anywhere other than an edit button. The edit button could go where the > dropdown icon is now for example. **************************** Tentative UI/UX proposal: **************************** 1) non-hover, non-focus: [John <john(at)gmail.com> v] - hide edit icon/button - single-left-click from-selector anywhere opens dropdown (big click target for default workflow of picking predefined identity from list, as proposed by Josiah/Ben) - double-click anywhere -> edit sender (double click does nothing useful otherwise, so it's free). 2) hover, focus: [John <john(at)gmail.com> [/] v] - only when hovered or focused, show a small "Edit" icon [/] (e.g. pen) - imo per ux-natural-mapping, the correct position for this icon, as hinted by Josiah, is *inside* the dropdown (correctly implying you can edit the inner value based on prior choice in dropdown). - clicking the "Edit" icon allows editing of From field value, either dialogue (allowing explanation of dangers involved for unsuspecting users), or inline (how do we handle ux-error-prevention then?) 3) popup (without editing): [John <john(at)gmail.com> [/] v] |John private <john.private(at)foo.bar> | |John tertiary <john.tertiary(at)asdf.com> | +------------------------------------------------------+ - if user hasn't edited anything, clicking anywhere on from-selector outside "Edit" icon will open the normal and unmodified popup - imo we should *not* advertise this feature more by offering a dedicated action row inside the dropdown, ux-error-prevention for default users: many smtp servers will reject altered from-fields, especially when you change the email address - consider if the entire feature should be preffed-off by default, again ux-error-prevention 4) popup (with/after editing): [Johnny Edited <john(at)fakemail.com> [/] v] |*John <john(at)gmail.com> | |John private <john.private(at)foo.bar> | |John tertiary <john.tertiary(at)asdf.com> | +------------------------------------------------------+ - after manual editing, we need to offer an easy way of reverting to the original identity whose from-sender was edited: offer as first entry in the dropdown, with some indication (icon, bold, etc.) that this the currently used identity (only with edited from). 5) Context menu +--------------------+ |Edit this sender | |Copy | |Paste | +--------------------+ - optionally for this bug, but recommended, implement a simple context menu on the from-selector - Edit this sender -> edit sender (dialog/inline) - Copy: Copy the current value of sender, either original "John <john(at)gmail.com>" or edited "Johnny Edited <john(at)fakemail.com>" - Paste: Paste clipboard text to become the new edited value of sender - Copy and Paste might need better strings to indicate what they do -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/357864 Title: Editing the "From" field for the current email only (as text, not dropdown) To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/thunderbird/+bug/357864/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
