[spambayes-bugs] [ spambayes-Bugs-675811 ] Dead buttons left on
uninstall
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Bugs item #675811, was opened at 2003-01-27 18:37
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Category: Outlook
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Status: Open
Resolution: None
Priority: 5
Submitted By: Tony Meyer (anadelonbrin)
Assigned to: Mark Hammond (mhammond)
Summary: Dead buttons left on uninstall
Initial Comment:
The toolbar buttons are temporary, which causes
problems if they are moved. If they are permanent, then
we are left with dead buttons if we uninstall the plugin
(why would we do this? ;p ).
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>Comment By: Kenny Pitt (kpitt)
Date: 2004-02-16 10:06
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I don't think it would be that "expensive" computationally, but
it would destroy any customizations done to the toolbar
including repositioning. That seems to defeat the purpose of
making the toolbar permanent in the first place.
As an example, if I delete the SpamBayes toolbar manually
and then restart Outlook, the SpamBayes toolbar appears in a
second toolbar row all by itself. That wastes a lot of screen
real-estate so I immediately drag it over to the end of the
main toolbar to make a single row, and it stays there from
then on no matter how many times I restart Outlook. If we
delete the SpamBayes toolbar every time Outlook is closed,
the toolbar would go back to the second row every time I
restart.
Personally, I think I would rather see us go back to using
temporary buttons. The hard part is figuring out how to use
them correctly. Here are some thoughts that might at least
spark some discussion (I'm not fully aware of all the history on
this, so I apologize if any of this has already been found to
not work well).
(1) Don't create a separate toolbar if it is temporary, because
the user won't be able to reposition it to a convenient
location (just like above with deleting the permanent one
every time).
(2) Don't tack the buttons onto the end of the main toolbar
because it is too easy to lose them off the edge if people
aren't using wide screens and maximized Outlook windows. A
good place to put them might be to insert them where
Outlook inserts its "Not Junk" button, which is by default
between the Delete button and the Reply button.
(3) Use shorter text descriptions so that the buttons don't
take up as much room. Similar to Outlook's "Not Junk", I've
renamed my SpamBayes buttons as "Spam" and "Not Spam".
(4) We could possibly save even more room on the toolbar by
making the SpamBayes menu a submenu in the Action menu
after Outlook's Junk E-mail submenu instead of using a toolbar
button.
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Comment By: Tony Meyer (anadelonbrin)
Date: 2004-02-14 20:34
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How expensive would it be to delete the toolbar every time
we close Outlook? That would fix this and also step around
the bug that makes the toolbar get recreated all the time.
(For me, at least, the toolbar is recreated because of that
failure every time I start Outlook, so it would make almost
no difference).
Just a thought. (This tracker was opened over a year ago -
wow!).
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Comment By: Tony Meyer (anadelonbrin)
Date: 2003-08-13 18:39
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That's right - I wrote that solution before SpamBayes had it's
own toolbar.
If you right-click on the toolbar, then choose customize, then
select the spambayes toolbar, then choose delete, it goes
away and everything else is left alone.
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Comment By: Hugh Brackett (hbrackett)
Date: 2003-08-13 13:46
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Dead buttons - Less drastic is to customize the toolbar and
drag the spambayes buttons off. This avoids loosing all your
customizations. I also had to select the spambayes toolbar in
the View menu to see the real 0.6 buttons.
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Comment By: Mark Hammond (mhammond)
Date: 2003-07-03 08:29
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Still in the latest version, even with the new toolbar :(
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Comment By: Tony Meyer (anadelonbrin)
Date: 2003-06-30 20:15
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For anyone reading this because they have buttons left over
after uninstalling, you can get rid of them by resetting the
toolbar.
(Right click on the toolbar, click
customize, then select the standard toolbar, then click reset).
Presumably the next release, when we have our own toolbar,
will remove this issue and this can be closed.
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