Re: [Evolution] Filing system

[Mark Tearle <mtearle tartarus uwa edu au>]

On Fri, 12 May 2000, NotZed wrote:

> What would probably be more constructive, is how do people think
> the interface to such a system would work?  Sure, you have some
> mechanism (again, the details are important, but irrelevant in
> terms of the implementation) to define some search pattern to
> apply to your folders, and that gives you back a result - what
> happens if you delete a message (it deletes it from the source
> folder?)  What happens if there are duplicate messages in different
> folders returned by the same query?  What happens when you drag
> a message from one vfolder into another?
>
>  Michael

Some initial thoughts:

o Deletion of message -> marks message for deletion, but does not expunge
    it. (analogous to IMAP).  vFolders should not be able to expunge messages;
    they are merely views of a mailbox.  Expunging should be an
    operator for a mailbox (so you can see the context the messages
    are in before you delete them forever)
o duplicate messages -> let there be duplicates, unless the messages
  have the same message id + length then indicate there are multiple copies.
o dragging 
        vFolder -> Folder ok 
        Folder -> vFolder not ok [1]
        Folder -> Folder ok

        [1] maybe spring some dialog up, etc, etc about the vFolder,
                eg widening of defintion [2]
        [2] Hashing out the semantics of vFolders first is perhaps
            a better.  I'm currently thinking of vFolders somewhere
            along the lines of PINEs select and zoom across multiple
            mailboxes, although I can see that there is more to it
            than that.
o this may be an opportunity for a non-programmer to make a contribution
  to evolution -> writing up a list of test cases, scenarios, etc for
  evolution and it's vFolder implementation

Yours
Mark
PS.  Hi to another .au person who's working on gnome!
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Mark Tearle - mtearle tartarus uwa edu au

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