Re: Next generation web client UI

On Thursday, July 12, 2012 11:17:15 AM Thomas Brüderli wrote:
> Torsten Grote wrote:
> > On Wednesday 11 July 2012 22:21:11 Thomas Brüderli wrote:
> >> I like the solution with the drop-down menu for the main tasks but one
> >> reason for that was actually to gain some more vertical space which is
> >> now taken by the main task buttons. I'd suggest to at least remove the
> >> topmost black bar by placing the logout link also into that drop-down
> >> menu and moving the user name left of the drop-down since we now have
> >> plenty of horizontal space. The About link and the version information
> >> aren't that important to occupy space on every screen. And maybe he can
> >> still squeeze the header by some pixels to get even more vertical space.
> > 
> > I agree with that comment. An alternative proposal would be to move
> > commonly used activities such as "E-Mail, Contacts, Calendar" out of the
> > drop-down menu and put them right into that bar like the future Roundcube
> > skin does.
>
> The big question here is to define the "commonly used activities". I
> guess that is a rather subjective value and highly depends on the
> individual user's opinion and tasks. The rolls royce solution is to make
> that list configurable by the user.
> 

Or actually count the number of interactions and rank them.

Kind regards,

Jeroen van Meeuwen

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