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I've done some work on cleaning up the spacing in the search bar and as an experiment, I stuck some icons into it in place of the words. These aren't quite the right icons but they give me the impression that icons here are a good thing. Note however that the icon for the search type, which is currently just a generic search icon in the search box, needs to be modified to reflect that it actuates a popup menu. I do have a patch but it isn't ready for prime time. I'm still a newbie on Evolution Hacking.

--Cameron

mail reader -> address book interface

Hi, this is my first time committing ideas to an OpenSource project, so I have no clue if this is the right place for it, but it feels so. :)

• In the mail preview (header and body) E-Mail addresses are being high-lighted, a right-click context menu offers the address to be added to the address book. This is fine for new, unknown entries, but I have two problems for existing entries:
  1. Often, I receive address information per mail and want to update the address book entry belonging to the sender. To do that, I have to
     1. switch to the address book,
     2. search the contact through the search field,
     3. open it up,
     4. switch back to the mail client (so I can read the information from the mail)
     5. Alt-tab to my address book entry so I can finally enter the information.
  2. Even worse (and it does happen from time to time) is the case where I don't know a contact has already been added to the address book. Usually that's because I did reply to some mail at some time in history and evolution created a contact for the mail target. Later on I decide to explicitly add that person to the address book (don't know think about the automatic entry). Evolution gives no hint I'm creating that contact for a second time until I hit save. Then it asks if I want to merge the contacts. If I do it breaks several fields of my newly created contact and if I don't I'll have to delete the old entry by doing all the above named clicks -- annoying.
• Easy SOLUTION I see for both problems:
  • For e-mail addresses that are known within the address book, replace the "add" option in the right-click context menu by an "edit" option which leads directly to editing the known contact.
  • If can think of someone actually wanting to create a second contact, you may preserve the "add" option, but put it further down the context menu, so the user will recognize at first, that the e-mail address is already present in the address book.
  • Even better than just modifying the context menu would be ONE small icon next to the e-mail address, offering to "edit" or "add" the contact. Users of the rare case of wanting to add an e-mail address again, may use the context menu instead of the icon. The icon would give quick access to an often used case of wanting to edit/update a contact who's e-mail I'm just reading.

I assume that at least the non-icon solution would take an experienced Evolution-hacker just a few minutes to accomplish, unfortunately I'm not. Thanks from me big time if you manage to do that! :) --Jon 13:44, 19 December 2007 (MST)