Apologies in advance if I should have contacted a dev owner directly
instead of the list. If this was sent to the wrong place, please let
me know the proper place and I'll pursue this there.
--
Hello List--
I'd like to have tabbed e-mail, and I'd like a better webmail client.
I think RoundCube could be the solution to both:
http://www.alexking.org/blog/2006/03/02/tabbed-e-mail/
With the excellent job the dev team has done thus far, I'm sure
you've gotten a ton of pet feature requests. However, I'm willing to
write the code for mine - *if* a patch would be accepted into core.
Basically, I'd like to introduce a "tabbed interface" option (or
default, if you prefer, but I think an option is a good intermediary
step). The existing RoundCube interface, which replaces the main
screen with a screen dedicated to the selected function (reading,
writing, choosing from a list), is well suited to accept tabs.
I've worked on a number of OS projects and would be capable of
creating both the back-end code (using whatever coding conventions
you prefer) and the front-end code (images, XHTML, CSS) to add this
as an option. I've also got some experience building advanced, cross-
platform AJAX applications (FeedLounge).
If this is a feature you'd be interested in having in the product?
Perhaps there is someone I should talk to about the best way to do
the implementation (the 5 minute architecture tour)?
Cheers, --Alex King
Personal Business FeedLounge http://alexking.org http://kingdesign.net http://feedlounge.com
To build on this idea, what about an integrated RSS reader into Roundcube? Perhaps this would be better served as a module, once we get custom module encoding put into RC.
However, from Alex's mockups on Flickr, I'm actually intrigued by how simple it would be to add tabs as we put more features in. It would definitely open up the possibilities of letting users load custom modules that add functionality into new tabs, without sacrificing or changing the way roundcube works overall.
--Geuis
On 3/4/06, Alex King lists@alexking.org wrote:
Apologies in advance if I should have contacted a dev owner directly instead of the list. If this was sent to the wrong place, please let me know the proper place and I'll pursue this there.
--
Hello List--
I'd like to have tabbed e-mail, and I'd like a better webmail client. I think RoundCube could be the solution to both:
http://www.alexking.org/blog/2006/03/02/tabbed-e-mail/
With the excellent job the dev team has done thus far, I'm sure you've gotten a ton of pet feature requests. However, I'm willing to write the code for mine - *if* a patch would be accepted into core.
Basically, I'd like to introduce a "tabbed interface" option (or default, if you prefer, but I think an option is a good intermediary step). The existing RoundCube interface, which replaces the main screen with a screen dedicated to the selected function (reading, writing, choosing from a list), is well suited to accept tabs.
I've worked on a number of OS projects and would be capable of creating both the back-end code (using whatever coding conventions you prefer) and the front-end code (images, XHTML, CSS) to add this as an option. I've also got some experience building advanced, cross- platform AJAX applications (FeedLounge).
If this is a feature you'd be interested in having in the product? Perhaps there is someone I should talk to about the best way to do the implementation (the 5 minute architecture tour)?
Cheers, --Alex King
Personal Business FeedLounge http://alexking.org http://kingdesign.net http://feedlounge.com
Alex King wrote:
Apologies in advance if I should have contacted a dev owner directly instead of the list. If this was sent to the wrong place, please let me know the proper place and I'll pursue this there.
That's what the list is here for.
--
Hello List--
I'd like to have tabbed e-mail, and I'd like a better webmail client. I think RoundCube could be the solution to both:
I like your idea. There's an other OSS webmail introducing tabs: http://sourceforge.net/projects/nimail/
With the excellent job the dev team has done thus far, I'm sure you've gotten a ton of pet feature requests. However, I'm willing to write the code for mine - *if* a patch would be accepted into core.
You're welcome to do so.
Basically, I'd like to introduce a "tabbed interface" option (or default, if you prefer, but I think an option is a good intermediary step). The existing RoundCube interface, which replaces the main screen with a screen dedicated to the selected function (reading, writing, choosing from a list), is well suited to accept tabs.
The "ajaxification" of RoundCube is not complete. We already had discussions about how to improve the interface and reduce the number of "complete page loads" and use more DOM operations to show/hide elements. For example when opening a message, the message list should just be hidden without loading the whole page. This would make the application even faster. I totally agree with this and I guess that we should first implement the basics for that and put the tabbed-interface on top.
I've worked on a number of OS projects and would be capable of creating both the back-end code (using whatever coding conventions you prefer) and the front-end code (images, XHTML, CSS) to add this as an option. I've also got some experience building advanced, cross-platform AJAX applications (FeedLounge).
If this is a feature you'd be interested in having in the product? Perhaps there is someone I should talk to about the best way to do the implementation (the 5 minute architecture tour)?
You can ask me about the architecture or you can contact Justin Randell <justin[a]babel[.]com[.]au> who once suggested to optimize the GUI in the way I described further up.
Cheers, --Alex King
Personal Business FeedLounge http://alexking.org http://kingdesign.net http://feedlounge.com
Regards, Thomas
In my opinion, the top right menu should be tabbed.. (I have a large collection of folders on the left :) ) and maybe somthing ala Evolution/Thunderbird "Email preview" ?
On Sun, 05 Mar 2006 14:46:45 +0100, Thomas Bruederli roundcube@gmail.com wrote:
Alex King wrote:
Apologies in advance if I should have contacted a dev owner directly instead of the list. If this was sent to the wrong place, please let me know the proper place and I'll pursue this there.
That's what the list is here for.
--
Hello List--
I'd like to have tabbed e-mail, and I'd like a better webmail client. I think RoundCube could be the solution to both:
I like your idea. There's an other OSS webmail introducing tabs: http://sourceforge.net/projects/nimail/
With the excellent job the dev team has done thus far, I'm sure you've gotten a ton of pet feature requests. However, I'm willing to write the code for mine - *if* a patch would be accepted into core.
You're welcome to do so.
Basically, I'd like to introduce a "tabbed interface" option (or default, if you prefer, but I think an option is a good intermediary step). The existing RoundCube interface, which replaces the main screen with a screen dedicated to the selected function (reading, writing, choosing from a list), is well suited to accept tabs.
The "ajaxification" of RoundCube is not complete. We already had discussions about how to improve the interface and reduce the number of "complete page loads" and use more DOM operations to show/hide elements. For example when opening a message, the message list should just be hidden without loading the whole page. This would make the application even faster. I totally agree with this and I guess that we should first implement the basics for that and put the tabbed-interface on top.
I've worked on a number of OS projects and would be capable of creating both the back-end code (using whatever coding conventions you prefer) and the front-end code (images, XHTML, CSS) to add this as an option. I've also got some experience building advanced, cross-platform AJAX applications (FeedLounge).
If this is a feature you'd be interested in having in the product? Perhaps there is someone I should talk to about the best way to do the implementation (the 5 minute architecture tour)?
You can ask me about the architecture or you can contact Justin Randell <justin[a]babel[.]com[.]au> who once suggested to optimize the GUI in the way I described further up.
Cheers, --Alex King
Personal Business FeedLounge http://alexking.org http://kingdesign.net http://feedlounge.com
Regards, Thomas
I had a look at that, by the way. Tried to install it, but the
website with the source seems to have an expired domain, and as far
as I can tell no work has been done on it since September or so.
:-(
On Mar 5, 2006, at 5:46 AM, Thomas Bruederli wrote:
I like your idea. There's an other OSS webmail introducing tabs: http://sourceforge.net/projects/nimail/
-- Mark Edwards
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