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List:       kmail-devel
Subject:    Re: [PATCH] attachment column
From:       Ingo =?iso-8859-1?q?Kl=F6cker?= <kloecker () kde ! org>
Date:       2004-02-29 19:41:04
Message-ID: 200402292041.05464 () erwin ! ingo-kloecker ! de
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On Friday 27 February 2004 22:12, Martin Koller wrote:
> 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)

Since many people want this a patch would be welcome. But please 
restrict this to the important status, the attachment status and 
probably the spam status. A message can (in theory) have up to 11 (!) 
status icons:
1. spam/ham
2. watched/ignored
3. queued
4. sent
5. new/unread/read
6. attachment
7. encrypted
8. signed
9. important
10. replied
11. forwarded

I seriously doubt that anyone will want to have 11 status columns. (Or 
10 because IMO queued and sent should replace each other.) If you want 
to make it *really* configurable then let the user decide for each icon 
whether it should be displayed in a column of its own or not.

Regards,
Ingo

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