[maemo-developers] [CSSU] Modest tree view mode beta test

[From: Nirav Thakker]

I agree, While looking at mails and connecting the dots on threads that have
not been replied for days, the GMail style threaded (Tree style)
Conversation view is excellent. Consider this as my one up on this request.
:)

the one and only NIRAV THAKKER


On Thu, Mar 3, 2011 at 3:10 PM, Andrew Flegg <andrew at bleb.org> wrote:

> On Tue, Mar 1, 2011 at 02:50, Naikel Aparicio <naikel at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > I’m looking for people that would like to test a little bit more Modest
> in
> > tree view mode.  It’s a very confortable mode where you see accounts and
> > folders in a tree, and you don’t have to browse accounts, mailboxes and
> > folder windows to get to your message.
>
> Whilst you're in a treeview mode, how feasible would it be to allow -
> on a per account basis - showing messages grouped by In-Reply-To
> and/or References; to give something a bit like Gmail's conversations
> view?
>
> This would meet https://bugs.maemo.org/2674 requirements.
>
> So, consider my Inbox of a typical morning:
>
>  Mrs Jaffa        Dinner tonight?                              07:40
>  Bart Simpson     Re: About your website                       07:02
>  John Smith       Re: [CSSU] Modest tree view mode beta test   07:01
>  Bart Simpson     About your website                           04:00
>  Naikel Aparicio  Re: [CSSU] Modest tree view mode beta test   03:20
>
> This can rapidly become painful reading a thread. However, using a
> single-level tree view, it'd be great to have:
>
>  Mrs Jaffa        Dinner tonight?                              07:40
>  Bart Simpson     [-] About your website                       07:02
>     Bart Simpson  Re: About your website                       07:02
>     Bart Simpson  About your website                           04:00
>  2 authors        [-] [CSSU] Modest tree view mode beta test   07:01
>     John Smith    Re: [CSSU] Modest tree view mode beta test   07:01
>     Naikel Apa... Re: [CSSU] Modest tree view mode beta test   03:20
>
> Rough spec:
>  * Groups would only be shown if there were multiple messages in
>    the folder.
>  * If there is a single sender for all the messages in the group,
>    show their name. Otherwise show a count of the authors.
>    (Or should it show a message count in both cases?)
>  * Groups are sorted by the time of the most recent message.
>  * Prev/next buttons move you through the order displayed above.
>
> What do you think? This would make Modest really truly excellent for
> _my_ use cases, at least.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Andrew
>
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