On 26 Jan 2010, at 12:00, Ian Eiloart wrote:
>
> On 25 Jan 2010, at 15:58, Davide 'Folletto' Casali wrote:
>>
>> On 25/gen/2010, at 16.48, Marc Stibane wrote:
>>>
>>> Am 25.01.2010 um 16:41 schrieb Stuart Sharpe:
>>>>
>>>> In this mockup, the source list folders are grouped by email account, and
>>>> then by the individual folders on the server for that account. This is
>>>> similar to how Postbox and a few other clients work, but very different to
>>>> Mail, which groups items in the sidebar by function first, then by
>>>> account. So you have one 'Inbox' in the source list, which can then be
>>>> opened to reveal individual account inboxes.
>>>>
>>>>
>>> I second that.
>>> This is also one of the major complaints of the iPhone mail.app: No shared
>>> inbox. Leads to lots of tapping if you have several accounts...
>>
>> I agree on the concept!
>>
>> ...but the wireframe S already solves that problem:
>> . the top part contains the sources, EXACTLY as they are "physically" on the
>> server.
>> . the bottom part contains the smart folders: the "aggregated" inbox is, in
>> fact, a smart folder. :)
>
> It'd be nice if the user could rearrange them, or choose which sources to
> display and which to hide.
I see what you're saying there, Davide, but as Ian says, in that case I'd want
power to rearrange the layout rapidly and easily so that the 'smart' mailboxes
can take precedence over the 'server' ones - with the option to hide the server
ones entirely.
The arrangement of individual folders on the server for each account is really
an implementation detail, whereas a combined inbox view is about making the
mail client quickly usable and useful. I appreciate we're aiming at 'power
users' who probably will be interested in how the folders are arranged on the
server, but we're also aiming at people who like getting email done quickly and
efficiently - and for that kind of person, surely 'Unread Email' is going to be
the most important view of the entire application, and deserves priority
status.
Again, I very much like Mail's approach here, where the important folders
(inbox, drafts, sent, trash) are combined at the top of the source list and the
actual server mailboxes are lower down and can be hidden when not needed.
Absolutely agreed on the iPhone front, though. Thanks to the iPhone's inept
management of multiple accounts, I've had to move to a single mail account to
which all my email is forwarded, so that I don't spend hours tapping through
lists of accounts. Highly frustrating.
Hopefully Letters Touch (*ahem*) will be the solution to all my troubles on
this front...
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