Re: [Geary] Feature request: Browse mail by contact panel, (second try)

[Michael Gratton <mike vee net>]

Hi Gunwald,

On Thu, Sep 22, 2016 at 10:56 AM, Gunwald Neuhausen <gunwald gmx de> 
wrote:
> >  This sounds like an interesting idea.
>
> Would it be useful, if I would provide some mock-ups?

That would be great! Before you begin, be sure to look at the 
following, if you haven't seen them already:

* The GNOME 3 HIG - the starting place for all good UX design: 
<https://developer.gnome.org/hig/stable/>
* The Design Team wiki, especially the style they use for their mockups 
and the Mockups Resources repository they use for creating them: 
<https://wiki.gnome.org/Design>

Also, do have a read of Bug 730712 and Bug 771642, and look at the 
design work there, since we would want to integrate your proposals with 
those.


> >  It could also serve as the
> >  address book[3], which is something that Geary needs.
>
> Wy would Geary need an address book? Wouldn't it be better, to 
> integrate
> Gnome-contacts (https://wiki.gnome.org/Apps/Contacts). I like the 
> idea,
> that Geary is only a mail client, nothing else. Every contact related
> action other then filtering mails by contacts and write mail to them,
> could trigger an event that opens the related function in Gnome 
> contacts.

As I said before, we definitely want to integrate with the desktop's 
contacts. However Geary needs to maintain its own list of email 
addresses for a number of reasons:

* People not use Contacts/EDS or have either installed
* People may not want put particular email addresses in EDS
* Geary-specific information about email addresses needs to be stored 
somewhere, regardless of whether it is is EDS or not.

Since we need to maintain a list of email addresses and related data, 
that needs to be managed somehow, and an address book is the standard 
way to do it in other email apps. However, I see your proposal as an 
alternative to having an address book. It could for example simply 
provide a way of invoking the contact popovers discussed in Bug 771642 
by including a menu button that those popovers are hooked up to.

//Mike

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