[MlMt] The lousy Counters UI (was Re: sound notifications in Sierra)

[Benny Kjær Nielsen]

On 22 Sep 2016, at 21:31, Bill Cole wrote:

> On 22 Sep 2016, at 11:27, Ted Byfield wrote:
>
>> (In passing, that counter UI might be for confusing for users who are 
>> new and/or less willing/able to put the time in -- but I digress.)
>
> Amen. This has been noted about a dozen times on this list in the 
> past. I think Benny has agreed, but it really isn't obvious what else 
> to do without proliferating Preference panes.

My (old) long term intention is to remove the preferences pane and move 
this to a General pane in the mailbox editor. But if I do that then I 
should probably also introduce a global “mute” option in general 
preferences windows. It comes up quite often that some users dislike all 
sounds.

> A slight improvement would be to have the MM icon in the middle of the 
> 4 radio buttons, so at least there's a stronger visual clue as to 
> their function.

I have done that, but I think it'll still be interpreted as the 
placement of 1 counter instead of the configuration of 4 counters.

-- 
Benny