Thread: [WIP] Immoral - a Py/QML mail client.
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cb22 is offline cb22
2011-04-18 , 11:23
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#20
The use of a Gmail-style "conversation" rather than fully threaded might be more appropriate: most people don't have complex subthreads to navigate, and see the discussion on bug #2674 for justifications against a fully-threaded view on the limited screen estate.
That GUI is quite basic still - my plan is to essentially hide any read messages in the threading view, replacing them with a "..." which will cut down quite a bit on wasted screen real estate.

As for the GMail style message view, 100%. when you click on a message (be the client in unthreaded or threaded view), it will open that message, and have something like (5 read) at the top of the the message, and (3 unread) at the bottom. Clicking on them will load the additional messages in the thread. If you've used the GMail Android client, you'll know exactly what I'm talking about.

One suggestion, missing from all the existing clients I've tried: Option to limit the age of messages to download.
Yep - it's been quite high on my list. As someone who has a GMail account with thousands of messages in my inbox, modest is completly unusable.