[Geary] Feature request: Browse mail by contact panel (second try)

[Gunwald Neuhausen <gunwald gmx de>]

Dear Geray Enthusiasts!

I would like to propose a new function to Geary, which – in my humble
opinion – would solve the unsolved problem, how to browse through the
huge amount of mails many of us getting every day.
Nowadays almost every mail client offer a folder view to browse through
different mail accounts and their IMAP folders. With out any question
this is useful, but I think, their would be a better way to browse our
mail: To browse them by contact. There for I would propose to integrate
Geary with the evolution data server, to enable it to show instead of
the folder view a contact view.

 * This contact view could look similar to the left column of Gnome
   contacts.
 * It would list the contacts stored in the evolution data server, but
   ordered by the last mails I got or send to them. That means, if I
   would have got an mail form contact A three minutes ago, but from
   contact B 10 seconds ago, B would be in the first place.
 * Clicking on the contact would list all mails I ever got from it in
   the second pane.
 * Middle click on it would list all mails I ever send to that contact.
 * The contact panel would also offer a search field, to search only in
   the listed contacts.
 * Of course the folder tree view should not be completely removed,
   but you should switch between the the contact panel and the classic
   folder tree.

What do you think, of such a feature?

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> Date: Mon, 19 Sep 2016 22:40:08 +1000
> From: Michael Gratton <mike vee net>
> To: Federico Bruni <fede inventati org>
> Cc: Geary <geary-list gnome org>
> Subject: Re: [Geary] Geary does not close with Ctrl+q
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> On Mon, Sep 19, 2016 at 6:53 PM, Federico Bruni <fede inventati org> 
> wrote:
> > Il giorno dom 18 set 2016 alle 17:21, P?t?r <peturvilj gmail com> 
> > ha scritto:
> > > Geary does not close with Ctrl+q, other gnome apps does.
> >
> > I cannot reproduce it on Gnome 3.20.2
> > Never had this problem.
>
> It works for me under GNOME as well, so I wonder if it's also related 
> to XFCE not displaying the app menu? Although this has been reported 
> against 0.11.0: <https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=766601> so 
> it's not necessarily related to the gear menu being replaced with an 
> app menu.
>
> There may also be some weirdness with how Geary sets up keyboard 
> accelerators using the older GtkActions, which may be fixed once we 
> migrate the application's actions to use GAction instead.
>
> > > Bigger problem behind that: Geary is not convenient to use with the 
> > > keyboard. How can I navigate from one inbox to another, between 
> > > mails, folders, accounts ?
> >
> > We discussed this two years ago :)
> > https://mail.gnome.org/archives/geary-list/2014-December/msg00028.html
> >
> > but something has changed since then.
> > As far as I can see, you can move forward from a pane to another 
> > (accounts, conversation list, single thread) with TAB and you can 
> > move backward with Ctrl+Alt+TAB.
> >
> > I don't think that it's documented.
>
> There's a few keyboard navigation shortcuts documented in the Keyboard 
> Shortcuts page of the User Guide Geary that Geary ships with. It's also 
> mostly conformant to the standard GNOME keyboard navigation guidelines 
> documented here: 
> <https://developer.gnome.org/hig/stable/keyboard-input.html.en>
>
> Also, keynav will be changing a bit in 0.12, as a result of the the GTK 
> widgets work and the port to WebKit2GTK, hopefully for the better.
>
> However if there's anything that is specifically not possible using the 
> built-in keyboard navigation, then please do file a new bug for it (if 
> a bug for it doesn't aleeady exist). Things like having a keyboard 
> shortcuts like Ctrl+1/Ctrl+2/etc for switching between accounts might 
> make some sense, for example.
>
> //Mike