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UI Enhancements
[[User:MovGP0|MovGP0]] 23:57, 23 June 2007 (PDT)
== UI Enhancements ==
I've noticed that some semantic identical elements are not handeled the same way throughout Thunderbird.
;Example:
When I rightclick on a mail adress in the previw window of a mail it does other things then when I do the same after opening the mail. Also, after rightclick on a mailaddress in the maillist leads to a completly different context menu. From the user view, this is complete irrational.
A possible way to solve this would be specialized components. There should be a dedicated Mail-Control that is useable from XUL which gives a well defined set of functions. Dependend on the context, some features might get disabled.
;Examples
* If the address is already in the contact list there is no need to do it again
* It should be possible to reply to a mailadress even in the preview
* When composing a new mail, it should be possible to change the contact data directly by right-click on the address/name. There should be a kind of auto-complete when entering new data.
I think further that it would have much sense to have a simple computer-wide semantic-store where the contact-data is stored, so that the controls can query for needed data globally. The computer wide storage is needed to exchange the data with Firefox and Calendar.
Also there should be support for microformats and RDF, ie. when there is a calendar or contact information is embedded in a xhtml-mail than this contact data should get recognized and extracted for import into the calendar-application and the contact-data.
''see also:''
* [http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/ Dublin Core]
* [http://xmlns.com/foaf/0.1/ FOAF]
* [http://microformats.org/wiki/hcard hCard Microformat]
* [http://www.w3.org/TR/rdfcal/ RDF Calendar]
* [http://microformats.org/wiki/hcalendar hCalendar Microformat]
* [http://haystack.lcs.mit.edu/ Haytack] -- very buggy and not user friendly, but it shows the way.
[[User:MovGP0|MovGP0]] 00:37, 24 June 2007 (PDT)
