Re: [Evolution-hackers] Summer of Code Project

[Alexandre Miguel Pedro Gomes <alexmipego gmail com>]

To start, I would love my sent messages to be listed in the
conversation. Many mailinglists don't send your own messages to you
too, so it can be "hard" to get to know the exact point where you gave
your opinion.

On 7/20/05, David Morrison <dmorrison hmc edu> wrote:
> Hello, all~
> 
> My name is David Morrison, I was selected by GNOME and Google to
> participate in Google's Summer of Code project working on Evolution.  I
> will be a sophmore at Harvey Mudd College in the fall, and am pursuing a
> joint major in computer science and math.
> 
> Anyways, I've been working pretty closely with Bryan Clark on this
> project, and I've put together a spec for what I'm doing, which you can
> read at http://www.cs.hmc.edu/~dmorrison/soc/Spec_revised.pdf -- the
> basic rundown of my project is that I am going to be adding a
> Gmail-style conversation view to Evolution, so that all messages in one
> conversation can be seen in one continuous stream.  Bryan asked me to
> email this list and ask for thoughts and suggestions on the proposal.
> (Bryan also put together a couple mockups that work a little bit better
> with evo's look-and-feel than mine do; you can see them here:
> http://www.cs.hmc.edu/~dmorrison/soc/conversation_email.png and
> http://www.cs.hmc.edu/~dmorrison/soc/conversation_email_reply.png)
> 
> Here are a few specific questions I have about the project as a whole:
> 
> - First of all, how feasible is what I'm talking about doing?  Will it
> fit in easily with the direction the Evolution is going?  In other
> words, will the work I'm doing be accepted by the Evo community, and if
> not, is there some way I could change stuff to make it acceptable?
> 
> - Secondly, are there any foreseeable problems coding these changes?
> What are going to be the trickiest parts?
> 
> - A couple questions more related to the overall design:  What do you
> guys think of having an in-line reply box in the message view pane, like
> Gmail does?  I said in the spec that I thought it probably wouldn't fit
> as well, but Bryan seems to think it would be ok.
> 
> - I also said in the spec that using color to distinguish between
> senders would not work as well, but I'm now thinking (and Bryan agrees)
> that using a bit of color here and there would make things less a wash
> of black-and-white.  Any thoughts on this one?
> 
> Any other comments or suggestions you guys have are also welcome.
> Thanks in advance for your help!
> 
> David Morrison
> dmorrison hmc edu
> 
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Alexandre Gomes, Portugal