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Re: UI enhancements



On Friday, 31 August 2007 at 17:40, Rocco Rutte wrote:
> Hi,
>
> currently I have two ideas (well, one from #mutt) for UI enhancements and 
> like to ask for input.
>
> 1) mutt_multi_choice() is currently used to let the user choose from quite a 
> number of possible options. To fit in 80x25 they're abbreviated which 
> obviously doesn't look nice. I've put together a patch that adds a dialog 
> and puts it in a curses subwindow like so:
>
>   <http://user.cs.tu-berlin.de/~pdmef/tmp/mutt1.tiff>
>   <http://user.cs.tu-berlin.de/~pdmef/tmp/mutt2.tiff>
>
> The first with $ascii_chars set, the second unset.
>
> 2) When interactively entering 'attachments ?' it'll end curses, print the 
> current attachments settings to stdout and re-enter curses. This doesn't 
> look very nice. Furthermore, if a user has more settings than fit on the 
> screen he'll miss some. I've a simple patch that adds a paging menu 
> triggered by the new 'show' keyword, e.g. 'show attachments', 'show config' 
> could be useful to get the values of many options where the ':set ?foo' 
> syntax doesn't help much. The new menu supports searching and scrolling.
>
> If there's interest in these ideas, I'll polish the patches up for 
> publishing and send them to the list.

They both sound useful to me.

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