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

[Michael Gratton <mike vee net>]

Hey Gunwald,

On Wed, Sep 21, 2016 at 9:24 AM, Gunwald Neuhausen <gunwald gmx de> 
wrote:
> I would like to propose a new function to Geary, which – in my 
> humble
> opinion – would solve the unsolved problem, how to browse through 
> the
> huge amount of mails many of us getting every day.
> Nowadays almost every mail client offer a folder view to browse 
> through
> different mail accounts and their IMAP folders. With out any question
> this is useful, but I think, their would be a better way to browse our
> mail: To browse them by contact. There for I would propose to 
> integrate
> Geary with the evolution data server, to enable it to show instead of
> the folder view a contact view.

This sounds like an interesting idea. We already would like to 
integrate Geary with EDS[0] so it can use contact information stored 
there. And I have been thinking lately that having a greatly improved 
contextual popovers for contacts[1] when e.g. clicking on they 
name+email in  a message would be a great thing. Also, we're planning 
on revamping the accounts sidebar[2] in the release after next, so this 
is something that could be kept in mind. It could also serve as the 
address book[3], which is something that Geary needs.

As step21 mentioned, it wouldn't work well for unknown contacts, but I 
can see how it would be useful, especially for finding email from 
recently or frequently contacted people.

What does everyone think?

//Mike

[0] - <https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=714160>
[1] - <https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=771642>
[2] - <https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=730712>
[3] - <https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=714696>

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