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List:       kde-usability
Subject:    Simplifying creation of filters
From:       Hisham Muhammad <hisham () apple2 ! com>
Date:       2003-12-06 15:49:05
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Hello,

After the (n^n)th time in my life I reconfigured my filters in a mail program, 
I believe a came up with a simple idea that could improve this boring task a 
lot.

Currently, when one drags a message from the one folder to another, a menu 
pops up asking which action should be taken, "Copy", "Move" or "Cancel". I 
suggest an additional action: "Create Filter".

Selecting this option would create a filter based on sender (or on mailing 
list, if List-Id is available), with the action set to move to the folder the 
message was dropped to.

This comes from the observation that the creation of filters usually involves 
these steps: one creates a folder, finds a message which belongs to this 
folder, right-clicks on it to "Create filter based on <From/Mailing 
List>...", and selects the folder he/she just created in a dropdown list 
("move to folder" is fortunately the default task). The "Create filter" 
option in drag-and-drop would eliminate this last step, and is inspired by 
the observation that most of the time I drag a message, it is to move from 
the inbox to a user/list folder for which I'll be also wanting to create a 
filter.

Things to consider:

* whether this applies only to messages dragged from the inbox or from any 
folder;

* "Create Filter" when selected from a drag-to-trash action could set the 
filter also to mark the message as read.

* whether this Create Filter option opens the filter configuration dialog 
(with action already set to move to the folder, of course) or not;

* whether the filters get applied to the inbox automatically after the filter 
is created.

(The last two could probably be configurable options.)

I also submitted this at bugs.kde.org as a wishlist (#69733), and I posted 
here so that discussions could possibly refine the idea even further.

Thanks in advance!

-- 
Hisham Muhammad
http://www.gobolinux.org

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