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List:       kmail-devel
Subject:    Re: [PATCH] attachment column
From:       Martin Koller <m.koller () surfeu ! at>
Date:       2004-02-27 21:12:50
Message-ID: 200402272212.55452.m.koller () surfeu ! at
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On Tuesday 24 February 2004 04:07, Don Sanders wrote:
> > You're probably right. I already created a patch that displays the
> > attachment icon along with the status icons and it's ok.

The way the "has attachment" flag should be displayed is really a matter of  
how you deal with your mails.

For me, I find it more convenient if I had the attachment flag as a separate 
column, because of the following use case:

I have my mails in different folders (as everybody, I guess), which is already 
a kind of "filter". If I want to quickly find a message with an attachment 
from a customer (one folder for one customer), then it is much quicker to 
select the folder,  scroll through the list of messages where I can already 
check for the specific date range (I normally have all the folders sorted by 
date), and quickly detecting a message with an attachment if the icon is 
somewhere aside at the left in a separate column and not very close to the 
subject of a mail. The column is even more convenient if you have your mails 
shown in threads, where then the attachment icon is not always on the same x 
position and therefore harder to find (you always have to move your eyes a 
lot).
The second way to find an attachment by looking in a folder is to sort by this 
attachment column and therefore having all mails with an attachment close to 
each other.

Yes, I could use the search dialog, but check yourself how many clicks you 
need to achieve the same as described above, and the result is not as good 
because I see the mails in a separate window (the search dialog) and not 
directly in the message list.

So I vote for the extra column.

If you still can't follow my use case, I would be happy if you make it 
configurable (this could be done as a general option: show 
mail-information-icons in columns or in subject)

- -- 
Best regards/Schöne Grüße

Martin
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