On 2012-03-27 19:17, Ian Lewis wrote:
My experimental effort in extending Roundcube to provide a 'contact-centric' email experience is progressing ok, although I'm doing some fairly major engineering... The net of it is to arrive at the layout shown in the attached screenshot - the 'contact-centric' view is reached by clicking on a contact name anywhere it appears (otherwise Roundcube still behaves as usual, with folders of emails being displayed in the preview pane.) Contact names appear in the contacts list, in the mail list display 'From:' column, and in the From, To, CC fields of emails. Emails are opened by clicking on the 'Subject', as opposed to anywhere on the entire row.
Hi Ian,
Thank you for the interesting exercise you're going through - while you're making progress it becomes more and more interesting to me where you're going with this.
I do have a special interest because, among other reasons, Cyrus IMAP will most likely -in the foreseeable future- release a feature called "Conversations" - emails related to one another, across the traditional boundaries of a folder, which almost naturally, I suppose, is most instinctively navigated through Contacts, Categories, Contexts, Distribution Lists and whathaveyou.
This work is currently ongoing within FastMail(.fm), and though without an RFC (there's plans to submit a draft for a proper IMAP4rev1 extension RFC), but if you are interested, let me know.
Kind regards,
Jeroen van Meeuwen