[spambayes-dev] Outlook Manager dialog

[Adam Walker]

> To me it seems odd that the general page has a 'training' section, and
> then there is a separate 'training' tab.  

I agree it's odd. Of course it was odd before when we had a training section
and a training dialog.

I'm of the opinion that we may need two GUIs. A simplified and a power user
(or maybe a wizard-for-first-setup and standard?) interface. I think most
users are confused by the multiple places to select folders. 
* spam for training.
* ham for training.
* folders to filter.
* spam for the filter.
* unsure for the filter.
* folders under filter now.

Having used it for a few months, I understand why all those options are
there. But to the start out, it's a bit overwhelming -- the new user simply
wants to point the plug-in at a pile ham, a pile of spam, and folder for
unsures and click a "finish" button. At which point the plug-in would train,
set the other folder options from the choices made before, set defaults for
the read state options, and enable itself.

>Where is "Filter now", you ask?  In a separate dialog, accessed via either
>a button on the filtering tab, or as a separate toolbar menuitem.

As long as the button/menuitem say "Filter Now..." (or something with "..."
and the end) and not "Filter Now" if it will bring up a dialog.

>Personally I don't really like tabs, and thought the old one was better (it

>made more logical sense).  I realise that this is probably a minority 
>opinion, and that the users are familiar with a tabbed interface, though.

The old layout suffered many of the same problems the current one does (I
didn't change the layout much other breaking up some pages) and violated
some GUI design conventions. It may have made sense code-wise but not usage
wise. At least that my $.02. Exchange rates may vary.

--Adam