[maemo-developers] Modest/TinyMail problems (continue from the blog comments)

[From: Marius Gedminas]

On Wed, Jun 25, 2008 at 12:31:28AM +0200, Philip Van Hoof wrote:
> On Wed, 2008-06-25 at 00:57 +0300, Marius Gedminas wrote:
> > On Tue, Jun 24, 2008 at 11:24:24PM +0200, Andrea Grandi wrote:
> > > I continue here a discussion you can find in this post:
> > > http://pvanhoof.be/blog/index.php/2008/06/24/big-day-for-modest-and-tinymail
> > > (Just read the comments).
> > <snip>
> > > Please let me know what do you think about it.
> > 
> > I want all the messages, and I want them in threaded view.  I believe
> > Modest does the former, but not the latter.

FWIW it's not that I want it very badly (hey, I still use ssh + mutt
from my tablet more often than I use Modest), but Andrea asked for an
opinion poll and I replied.

I honestly didn't expect a reply from the Tinymail author.  :-)

> I'm also not convinced that a device with such a small screen could
> provide a useful view when threaded.

It's not the tree structure that's important, it's grouping of messages
by thread.  I receive multiple mailing lists into a single inbox, and
then it's hard to keep track of an interesting discussion when multiple
threads from multiple lists are all intermixed in date order.

I believe GMail does this (collapses the thread into a "conversation",
but doesn't show the tree structure).

> I think grouping E-mails together based on "discussion", so basically a
> one-level Tree instead of a multi-threaded threaded view with each reply
> recursively going deeper ... I believe that makes a lot more sense.

Right.  I'd even say the tree is not needed at all, just keep messages
belonging to the same thread together.

> Also if it's a tablet that you are unlikely going to be using for
> handling more than ten mails per day and that functions as your
> secondary E-mail client (your primary is either KMail, Evolution,
> Outlook or Thunderbird, right?).

Mutt.  And yes, I use Modest to check for new interesting emails rather
than deal with all the incoming stream.

> Anyway, join Tinymail's mailing list if you want to discuss the service-
> side of the story. The UI side is always going to be a Modest's team
> decision. Best way to ping those people is to make a bug for Maemo in
> the product "Mail" or "Modest" (I forgot which is being used atm).

Last time I looked they used the Garage bug tracker.  Now I see a Modest
component in bugzilla.  And hey, my wish is there already:
https://bugs.maemo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2674

Marius Gedminas
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