Re: [SM-DEVEL] Placement of buttons above the mail

[Paul L. <pa...@sq...>]

On 2017年12月25日 03:13, Michelle Konzack wrote:
> Hello *,
> 
> currently I am trying 1.5.2-SVN but I am anything else then pleased with it.
> It is now already several years old and the plugins are not more working.

Awesome.

> I assume it has something to do with init.php

I doubt it.

> However, I am co-owner of a BioFarm in Estonia and now anything is covered
> with snow and I can not work here except on my computer. which is hopefully
> free of snow and ice  :-)
> 
> I use 86 plugins (see plugin mailinglist) and I am willing to help you out
> to get things running, but I stoped programming PHP in 2012 so I have go
> back into it...
> 
> OK, the new placement of the buttons is nice and better then in SM 1.4.23
> but the buttons are placed very badly, IF there are to many or because of
> the localisation there are broader as the englisch ones...

I'm not happy with some usability issues such as button placement,
either.  I created an as-of-yet unreleased plugin for 1.4.x that changes
a couple positioning problems, but in 1.5.2, things like that can be
more easily changed by just copying the tempate you are using and
customizing it to your heart's content.  Feel free to share back patches
if you think your changes would be broadly applicable.

> E.g. on the rigth side is the FOLDER_SELECT dropdown box (which become
> broader and broader, hence 280px in my case) and on the right the two
> buttons MOVE and COPY, and on the left side DELETE and UNDELETE.

You need to specify what screen you're looking at.  I guess you're on
the message list screen.

> if the space become to narrow, they wrap on top of each other and it looks
> very ugly and does not realy give the space fee. for buttons placed on the
> most-left side.
> 
> Is there a possibility, to move the two buttons MOVE and COPY above the
> dropdown box?

Yep, should be simple if you edit
templates/default/message_list_controls.tpl (near the bottom).  If you
make such a change, users will not be able to tab out of the folder
drop-down and hit the spacebar or enter key to activate the move button.

> It seems, I have three groups of buttons:
> 
> 1)  Left side
> 
>     FLAG  UNFLAG  READ  UNREAD  EXPUNGE
> 
> 2)  Middle
> 
>     DELETE  UNDELETE
> 
> 3)  Right side
> 
>     FOLDER_SELECT  MOVE  COPY
> 
> First of all, the EXPUNGE should be grouped together with DELETE and
> UNDELETE.
> 
> And then, why not place MOVE, COPY and FOLDER_SELECT in one line in this
> order, so if it become to narrow, the FOLDER_SELECT box would flip under
> the MOVE and COPY buttons?

See above.

> Can someone help me to change the sourcecode for it?

See above.

> I want to try this out on a mail server which is only used by myself.
> 
> OH, one of the most important things are:
> 
> 1) Threated view.  How can I get it back?

IIRC, same configuration as for 1.4.x.  Threaded link is at the end of
the pagination links as long as you've configured support for it.

> 2) Send-folder by recipient.  It is realy annoying if I have to go all
> the time back to the Sent folder to move messages arround.

I don't recall if Per Recipient Sent Folders works with 1.5.2, but I
suspect it might, or if not, it would be not too much work to fix.

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