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Message list filter #4330

Open cketti opened 4 years ago

cketti commented 4 years ago

In K-9 Mail 5.600 and earlier we supported only showing unread messages of a folder by clicking the unread count in the folder list. Same with starred messages. This functionality is missing in the current beta version (5.701).

But instead of recreating the old mechanism I'd like to add a filter button to the message list screen. For a first version we could use the following filter options:

show unread messages
show starred messages
show messages with attachments

clhunsen commented 4 years ago

This is also missing for me. Although, I had a different idea here: How about adding "meta folders" to the folder list to bring back this functionality?

In more detail, the folder list for all account (including the unified inbox!) would contain the following folders:

Unread messages
Starred messages
Messages with attachments
some kind of separator to distinguish meta folders from "physical" folders
the "physical" folders of the account (none here for the unified inbox, I guess)

This way, the feature would be placed more prominently and could be applied not only for the current folder but also for the current account (which resembles the "old way" more closely). What do you think?

cketti commented 4 years ago

@clhunsen: See #3398

axelsimon commented 3 years ago

Sorry to be that person but, "any progress on this?".

Thanks!

Yyuzu commented 3 years ago

But instead of recreating the old mechanism I'd like to add a filter button to the message list screen. For a first version we could use the following filter options:

show unread messages

show starred messages

show messages with attachments

Thanks for taking this issue. Does it mean it won't be cross-folder and only apply to current folder ?

andrewfg commented 3 years ago

My suggestion would be to show the respective filtered list when one touches the respective star/blob on the drawer - see below..

cketti commented 3 years ago

@andrewfg: These are way too small to be touch targets. And not being recognizable as touch targets separate from the whole row makes it very confusing. An issue that popped up very often with the account overview screen in 5.600 was that users would accidentally click on the number of unread or starred messages and then complain that K-9 Mail was not showing all messages. They didn't realize they opened a filtered view.

A similar issue can be seen in Android's notification settings screen, even though there is a visual indicator separating the touch targets. A lot of people do not realize tapping the text part of a row and tapping the switch control do different things. See e.g. https://forum.k9mail.app/t/notification-sound/2021

Yyuzu commented 3 years ago

I agree, I myself sometimes used to misclick on the star or unread icon while I wanted to get to the account itself and now it's even smaller !

Although I'd be glad if we could find a way to restore previous functionnality, which was:

access to all unread messages accross all folders from one account (not only currently displayed one).
access to all starred messages accross all folders from one account (not only currently displayed one).

I'm emulating this by setting all folders as part of unified inbox, and sorting unified with unread emails first but it has a few issues: 1/ it's multi account, and requires to add all folders to unified, killing the real purpose of unified inbox 2/ the < previous / next > buttons don't go to the previous or next message in the displayed list 3/ it's refreshing slower than previous "see all unread messages" feature and causes misclicks, as the displayed message takes a bit of time to disappear after getting back to the list

cketti commented 3 years ago

This issue is just for filtering message list views (of any kind). To support use cases like the ones described the idea is to have a more powerful search (#4513). Maybe along with saved search (#3398).

Yyuzu commented 3 years ago

I understand. Would it be possible then to keep #5466 and #5467 opened ?

Thanks a lot !

cketti commented 3 years ago

Would it be possible then to keep #5466 and #5467 opened ?

I don't see a point in keeping those issues open. They propose a solution that is not acceptable (as discussed in this issue).

WiredWonder commented 2 years ago

Super keen for this feature to come back.