Re: [Evolution] CHI'96 paper on mail usability and some thoughts

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vfolders are defined by an xml description, it would be easy
to transmit.

> > > > > > "Justin" == Justin Mason <jm jmason org> writes:
>
>     > Yes, while I was writing it I was thinking that the ETable stuff
>     > looks pretty powerful for this kind of setup.  Essentially, I
>     > wanted to make sure these kind of possible goals should be on
>     > the radar anyway -- so that e.g. colorisation would be possible
>     > with ETable, and the other goals are doable with vFolders.
>
> Yes, they have been in the radar since we began.  That is why we had
> to do a fully new table widget rather than trying to patch existing
> code. 
>
>     > Even if the vFolders were not easy to use straight away, a good
>     > way to do it would be if a set of predefined
>     > preferences/filters/vfolder setups are included -- kind of like
>     > a set of vFolder "themes".
>
> Yes.  Exactly.  Now we only need to make this very very visible.
>
>     > BTW here's another thought -- it would then be nice if there was
>     > a way to swap vFolder settings -- so e.g. I could mail a vFolder
>     > specification to my team-mates as an attachment.  (although
>     > however I could see some possible security issues with this.)
>
> It should be pretty simple to do this, we could mail it as a special
> mime-type that would contain the s-exp.  Michael Zucchi can probably
> talk more about this idea.
>
> Miguel.