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Please open the Thunderbird Preferences menu to see what each tab contains. The window size may not need to be increased. | Please open the Thunderbird Preferences menu to see what each tab contains. The window size may not need to be increased. | ||
== Proposed options for Global Account Settings menu == | |||
In Preferences I think the following belongs in a Global Account Settings menu: | |||
* Forward Messages: [Inline/As Attachment] | |||
* Auto Save every [ ] Minutes | |||
* The whole Composition->General->HTML section | |||
* Configure text format behaviour [Send Options...] | |||
* The whole Composition->Addressing section | |||
* The whole Privacy section that being: | |||
** Junk | |||
** E-mail Scams | |||
** Anti-Virus | |||
** Passwords | |||
* The whole Attachments tab that being: | |||
** Attachments folder | |||
** Download actions | |||
* Determine how Thunderbird handles return receipts [Return Receipts...] | |||
* [v] Compact folders when it will save over [ ]KB | |||
I suggest those to be moved to a Global Account Settings menu, because each of | |||
these are direct email or folder related. | |||
If you look at Edit->Account Settings->Return Receipts Thunderbird have already | |||
introduced the Global Settings concept. What Thunderbird here means by "Global" | |||
is "what have been configured in the Preferences". | |||
Revision as of 22:22, 14 August 2008
For documentation of ideas from bug 448716, Preferences UI clean up.
Mile stones
The list below is a proposal for how the goal of cleaning up the Preferences menu could be archived.
- Deciding for tab lay out (Reducing the number of sub-tabs)
- Making mock ups of all tabs with options included
- Deciding on options that can be deprecated
- Deciding which options should be moved to other tabs
- Deciding which options should be moved to a new Global Account Settings menu
- Re-evaluate the options in the Preference tabs to avoid having to increase the window size.
- Making mock up of Global Account Settings menu
- Deciding which options should be moved to other tabs
- Clean up current Account Settings
- Submit bug reports
We currently working at the first bullet point.
Reducing the number of sub-tabs
The current Preferences menu have 6 main tabs and 13 sub-tabs. The goal is to reduce the number of sub-tabs by increasing the number of main-tabs and maybe the window size.
The current window looks like this, where the first line is the title of the main-tab:
+--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | | | General | Display | Composition | Privacy | Attachments | Advanced | | | Format | General | Junk | | General | | | Tags | Addressing | Scams | | Network & Disk Space | | | | Spelling | Anti-Virus | | Updates | | | | | Passwords | | Certificates | | | +--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
In Firefox the Preferences looks like:
+--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | | | Main | Content | Applications | Privacy | Security | Advanced | | | General | | | Network | | | Updates | | | Encryption | | | +--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
The proposed layout for Thunderbird looks like:
+--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | | | Main | Display | Tags | Composition | Privacy | Advanced | | | Addressing | | | Anti-Virus | | | Junk | | | Network & Disk Space | | | Update | | | Certificates | | | +--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
In the above mock-up have the content of the main-tabs been set to:
- Main = General + Attachments
- Display = Display->Format + Privacy->Email Scams
- Composition = Composition->General + Composition->Spelling
- Privacy = Privacy->Passwords
Please open the Thunderbird Preferences menu to see what each tab contains. The window size may not need to be increased.
In Preferences I think the following belongs in a Global Account Settings menu:
- Forward Messages: [Inline/As Attachment]
- Auto Save every [ ] Minutes
- The whole Composition->General->HTML section
- Configure text format behaviour [Send Options...]
- The whole Composition->Addressing section
- The whole Privacy section that being:
- Junk
- E-mail Scams
- Anti-Virus
- Passwords
- The whole Attachments tab that being:
- Attachments folder
- Download actions
- Determine how Thunderbird handles return receipts [Return Receipts...]
- [v] Compact folders when it will save over [ ]KB
I suggest those to be moved to a Global Account Settings menu, because each of these are direct email or folder related.
If you look at Edit->Account Settings->Return Receipts Thunderbird have already introduced the Global Settings concept. What Thunderbird here means by "Global" is "what have been configured in the Preferences".