[Mailman-Developers] Mockup for New Design

[Ian Eiloart]

On 21 Jun 2011, at 09:14, Benedict Stein wrote:

> I'd suggest if we have this kind of subcription page for each list we
> could change the subscribe button to unsubscribe once a user is logged
> in - and add a small link if he's not logged in.
> 

No, you need to be able to unsubscribe without logging in. A mailback mechanism should be usable. I can't tell you how irritating it is that I can't do this on Apache mailing lists, where I'm subscribed using an address that I can't send email from!

> Am Montag, den 20.06.2011, 18:43 -0400 schrieb Terri Oda:
> 
>> Benedict already gave you a response about the summer of code project in 
>> progress...  I encourage you to get involved with that!  For one, your 
>> mockups are certainly pretty and I suspect your design input would be 
>> much appreciated for making nicer Mailman themes.
>> 
>> However, at a glance I see one flaw in your interface: no unsubscribe 
>> button!  I know, this happens under "edit options" but as the unofficial 
>> usability person on the Mailman dev team, let me tell you, that's a flaw 
>> in our older versions and something we most definitely shouldn't do again.
>> 
>>  Terri
>> 
>> 
>> Andrew wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>> 
>>> I am sure very free software developer has the Mailman mailing list web page
>>> imprinted into their mind, however after looking at it for the thousandth
>>> time, I thought that there is a lot of uneeded information on a page where
>>> there doesn't need to be.
>>> 
>>> Anyway I tried to improve it and the results are here
>>> http://and471.deviantart.com/art/GNU-Mailman-New-Design-214023110
>>> 
>>> I would love to hear your comments on it :)
>>> 
>>> Thanks
>>> 
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