Re: [Abook-devel] Viewing addresses

[Jaakko H. <Jaa...@ik...>]

On Mon, Jun 18, 2001 at 06:43:12 +0400, Vladimir Ivanov wrote:
> I think that it should be looked so:
> [Names List] -> [Viewer] -> [Editor]

Hmm, I like the idea that viewer and editor are combined. IMHO editing
an item should be as easy as possible.

> In opposition, from the Editor user will have access to all fields,
> which are possible to have (20-30 parameters, including X.400 adresses, Jaber 
> or ICQ or AIM or talk address, which may be different from the e-mail,

In this case user needs to use editor to see the certain fields?

> etc). Also, i suppose, that current layout of editor wastes too much of
> screen space. May be it's better to implement it as loooong list of all
> possible parameters (the same way as user list looks like)?

I agree that the editor wastes too much screen space. But I don't know
if the list approach is still very good.

> I think that Tab design of editor is not very scaleable, for example, if
> you later might want to add some new fields to abook, you have to
> re-design the layout again to find some place for it. And, of course if
> "custom fields" feature will be implemented (it's planned as i've seen
> in TODO) it's would be extremly difficult to fit, for example, about 10
> additional fields.

You are probably right here. The separate viewer makes some sense if
there is a huge amount of fields.

-- 
Jaakko