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List:       kmail-devel
Subject:    [Bug 86327] New: tabbed interface for kmail
From:       maffew () cat ! org ! au
Date:       2004-07-31 9:47:52
Message-ID: 20040731094752.1355.qmail () ktown ! kde ! org
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           Summary: tabbed interface for kmail
           Product: kmail
           Version: unspecified
          Platform: RedHat RPMs
        OS/Version: Linux
            Status: UNCONFIRMED
          Severity: wishlist
          Priority: NOR
         Component: general
        AssignedTo: kmail-devel kde org
        ReportedBy: maffew cat org au


Version:            (using KDE KDE 3.2.1KDE 1.2)
Installed from:    RedHat RPMsRedHat RPMs
OS:                Linux

Hi,

Tabbed browsing is a very popular feature for power users.

I am wondering if there might be a use for tabbed email? I find tabbed browsing to be \
very fast and efficient both with the mouse and with the keyboard.

This is how I imagine it might work...

You start with the normal three pane view.

But if you middle click (or press Ctrl-T) a new tab is opened in the right hand side. \
Each tab contains a list of messages and below it the message contents pane. This way \
you could open up multiple tabs, with commonly used folders in them. Message \
searching could open up an additional tab. The standard keys Ctrl-PgUp and \
Ctrl-PgDown could be used to switch between tabs.

To allow more screen space, you could also make the folder list like a sidebar, with \
a hot key to turn it on and off (like the bookmarks pane in Firefox).

And above the tabs could be a location bar.

In the (optional?) location bar you could type the name of a mail folder, or some \
search keywords. This would be a fast way to switch the folder within the current \
tab. Or to start a new tab you could do:

Ctrl-T (new tab)
Ctrl-L (location bar)
Type: family (with autocomplete) -> open the mail folder called "family"
Enter (display the family folder in the tab)

Or if you could do a quick searhc like this:

Ctrl-L (location bar)

Type: search subject beach holiday
Press Enter: messages from the current folder which match the search keywords are \
shown. 

The tab title bar could make it clear this is a search view, not all the messages are \
shown (e.g. family: search: subject beach holiday). This would also allow you to \
easily operate on all the messages in such a view (similar to pine's Apply command), \
e.g. to select all of them (Ctrl-A) and Move them to a new folder called "beach".

Anyway, it would be a fair bit of work to implement, but I thought it an interesting \
idea, so I hope you do too. So thanks for listening.

See also another kmail wish bug 48176, I suggested some ways to make it faster and \
easier to use kmail with the keyboard.

Thanks for kmail,
Matthew.
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