Re: [Evolution-hackers] Send/Receive in the Toolbar

[Not Zed <notzed ximian com>]

This is a job for the ui team, they did the research, i think they can
come up with a button name ... otherwise we're just pissing in the wind
trying second-guess users we never had any feedback from to start with.


On Thu, 2005-08-04 at 14:24 +0530, Srinivasa Ragavan wrote:
> Harish,
> 
> If we decide on this, then the terms could be something like
> "Synchronize" or "Refresh" and feels that "Synchronize" seems more
> appropriate of them. Do we have any better terms?
> 
> But the issue could be that a user, might enter calendar / contacts and
> press "Synchronize" or "Refresh" and expect the calendar/contacts to
> sync their a/c. In reality send_receive i/f should be implemented by all
> the components and should sync respectively. But since it is implemented
> only in Mail, where ever the user moves and clicks "Synchronize" it
> syncs just mail and not the respective components.
>  
> But i feel its ok. Probably it can go as a known issue or so. 
> 
> Any way a patch like this would do this.
> 
> -Srini.
> 
> On Thu, 2005-08-04 at 13:56 +0530, Harish Krishnaswamy wrote:
> > hi,
> > 
> >  This one is late - coming beyond the UI freeze :-( but there is an
> > overwhelming feedback from many first-time Evolution (and Linux) users
> > about the Send/Receive option on the toolbar, being confused for the New
> > Mail Creation option (They spot 'Send' on the toolbar and click on it
> > when they want to send a new mail). This problem had also figured
> > prominently in Anna's usability tests that were demonstrated in GUADEC
> > this year.
> > 
> > Could we please address this in 2.4 itself - where we have already
> > absorbed considerable UI changes aimed at better usability. 
> > 
> > Thanks,
> > Harish
> > 
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