[SM-DEVEL] Interface - Even Hotmail is starting to look better...!

[Daniel W. <d...@ni...>]

Hi all,

I take it everyone has seen the hotmail beta interface?

For squirrelmail (and its implementers) to keep up with competing email 
products it does need to start paying real attention to the interface. 
Whilst there are a heck of a lot of purists who like the cut down, bare 
functionality-only feel of squirrelmail, the average user is *really* 
impressed with "drag and drop" and "right-clicking" and will go where 
they can find them.

The average user isn't represented on these lists but they definitely do 
have a lot of power over companies/universities etc where the majority 
of users are mainly non-technical. If the average user doesn't think the 
interface is pretty enough for them then there goes 90% of the userbase.

Could we possibly have a dedicated roadmap as to what is outstanding on 
the templating side of things? I've just downloaded and installed 1.5.1 
to check out the state of affairs myself but it would be nice to have a 
central (wiki?) place for the templating status. (if there is one I must 
have mised it - a link would be great).

I'd love to help out on this side of development and will be able to do 
so once I have a better idea of what actually is left to be done.

As many productivity models state - it is important to define the "Next 
Actual Step" required to get closer to the goal. If these are defined 
somewhere easy and public we can chip in with some contributions.

All best wishes,
Daniel


P.S. I note that there is only the "default" template. It would be 
useful to have a showcase template in 1.5.1 to demonstrate the current 
templating capabilities.