Kontact Touch MailView Mockups

[Thomas Pfeiffer]

On Thursday 01 August 2013 18:54:18 Michael Bohlender wrote:
> I feel like I only communicate with my mentors and not enough with the
> whole team so here is a little look at whats going on:
> I will be working on the MailView Page for the next three weeks. As usual
> we start with mockups.

Good idea to post the mockups to the list!

> This is the very first iteration:
> https://drive.google.com/folderview?id=0B2wLkUtvD4v_SkZyZEFXVDZ1ZEk&usp=shar
> ing

Looks great overall!

Some feedback:
- One doesn't really need to see the original mail when replying or 
forwarding, because its content will usually be in the composing area anyway 
(quoting), unless you forward as attachment, but even then you probably don't 
need to see it. Not showing the original mail would give us more space for the 
composing area, especially because currently
- The address fields are too narrow. Entering something via touch keyboard is 
not fun anyway, and it gets even more difficult if you can't see all of what you 
typed. For checking if you typed the address correctly, you'd have to navigate 
back and forth in the edit field, which isn't a good idea. Therefore, the fields 
should be wide enough for common email addresses to fit in completely
- What happens if I tap "Add recipient"? Will it add a To or CC or BCC? Can I 
change the type of recipient afterwards?
I think KMail does a pretty good job with adding recipients: You can change 
between To/CC/BCC at any point and you can easily add another recipient by 
just typing into the empty field. This seems more convenient to me than pushing 
a button.
- The encrypt/sign buttons should only appear if encryption is configured. If 
we want to actively advertise encryption to people not using it yet, they 
might be replaced by a button which starts an encryption setup wizard that 
even allows you to create a new pair of GPG keys. That would be awesome, but 
not in the scope of the GSoC, of course.

> Next thing I am going to look at is attachments.

That brings us back to the fact that we don't have a file picker in PA yet. You 
should not need to do that, so we might postpone that until a file picker is 
there.