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List:       kde-i18n
Subject:    Re: mail-folder + mail-messages in konqy
From:       Sven Radej <sven () lisa ! exp ! univie ! ac ! at>
Date:       1999-03-31 7:51:11
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On Tue, 30 Mar 1999, Simon Hausmann wrote:
>Hi,
>
>I just read Waldo's nice DESIGN document once again and I'm thinking about
>integrating mail-"browsing" into Konqueror.
>>From KMail's side it shouldn't be very hard to do, but from Konqueror's
>side (and from the users point of view) I have no real clue how we can do
>it. And that's why I'm asking for opinions/suggestions/comments about
>the following points:
>
>1) How should the user "tell" Konqy: "Hey, I want to view mails." ?
>   By browsing into it's mail directory and clicking on a mail folder
>   file? Hm, in somehow I don't like this idea.
But why not? Mail folder can have nice icon. In case of mailbox-style folder
this would be enough. Clickingo on Inbox or something should be job for
mail-application. For MH or other mail-styles, Mail/ directory could have some
remark in .directory which would tell konqueror to call mail-application.

 >   By extending Konqueror's menus/toolbar if a mail browsing plugin is 
>   available? Perhaps go the netscape way and add something like the mail
>   button in the communicator?
>   
>2) How should an email view look like and how should it be selected?
This is job for mail-application. Or maybe a special mail-viewer.

>   Idea: For plain messages it's just a htmlized reader view (like in
>   KMail), for folders it's a combination of a tablistbox containing the
>   headers of all messages plus a reader widget (all being part of one
>   single view) . And perhaps a third, kmail-all-in-one view?
>   But then the problem remains: How do we select one of those view modes?
>   How does the user tell: "Hey, I want to view one message", "Give me
>   all msg's in that folder" or "Ah, I want to see all my mail stuff" ?
>
>3) Citing Waldo: "I think we should keep Konqueror a "browser": You can
>   browse with it, and look at things. But when you want to _DO_ things,
>   you will need a full-fledged application."
>   Do we want to break this rule in case of an email viewer and make the
>   email view a Real(tm) thing, which in somehow makes sense in case of
>   mail-msgs/news-articles.

I wouldn't break this rule. Otherwise we won't need window manager or anything:
"just start X and maximized konqueror, everything is in there..."

 >
>
>...lots of decisions, time for a new killer-thread ;)
>(but since we now have a "GUI-Decision-Master" it might be easier for
>solve)
>
>Greetings,
> Simon
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