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List:       kmail-devel
Subject:    Re: KMail User Interface summary ? :)
From:       Ingo =?iso-8859-1?q?Kl=F6cker?= <ingo.kloecker () epost ! de>
Date:       2001-05-31 22:53:26
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On Thursday, 31. May 2001 18:22, Michael Häckel wrote:
> I still would prefer optionally displaying "(new/total)" or only
> "(total)" if there are no new mails. The new mails in red and the
> total number in black.

This is a good idea. If someone what's to implement displaying of the 
number of total messages in the folder list, he should do it this way.

> > > 	3) and using mail-new and mail-opened icons with symbols for
> > > attachments where the status dash/dots are now which go into 2)
> > > status.
>
> Well, I currently don't know how it would be best to display an
> advanced status of mails.
> Currently we simply have one status, but actually maybe flags would
> represent the state of a mail better.
>
> But then a mail can have a read, replied, forwarded, attachment and
> importance flag at the same time. This gives at least a funny icon
> collection then.

You can't (or at least shouldn't) have replied to or forwarded a 
message without reading it. Therefore the replied and the forwarded 
status both imply the read status. So this decreases the maximal number 
of stati to display by one.
The attachment icon IMHO isn't really necessary as I already pointed 
out in another message. It shouldn't be implemented.
The importance flag should be put in a separate column.
So now there are only the replied and the forwarded status left. And 
these two could easily be combined into one icon if it's necessary.

> I'm definitely against adding five separate columns for these flags.
> Also adding one single column doesn't solve the problem nicely, since
> it has always to have at least the width of all icons, that possibly
> could be there.

I agree.

> I still prefer the status icon/s displayed immediately besides the
> subject, especially in threaded mode this is much nicer than in a
> different coloumn. However I currently don't know, if a QListViewItem
> is able to display several icons.

Yeah. Leave the status icon where is currently is, put the importance 
flag in a separate column and forget about the unnecessary attachment 
flag.

Regards,
Ingo
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