1. etpanX
etpanX is now an application that mostly works. Filters still are missing to make it possible a release. For the filters it would need offline IMAP and POP retrieval to a local storage (that makes two To-Dos).
1.1. Message threads
On user interface side, I worked on message threads. If you select a message on a thread, you will see that all the thread will be colored with a light blue to give a context of the thread. The current behavior is the following:
- selecting the main message of a closed thread will select all the thread
- expanding the main message will show all the thread
- selecting a message in an open thread will select only the message
- selecting several messages in an open thread will select the chosen messages
- selecting several message among several threads will select all the messages of both threads
Viewing a thread:
Selecting multiple thread:
1.2. message list abstraction
To be able to search messages across folders, I started to implement some message list abstraction at backend level. That’s a message list where we could add any message of any folders. That will allow the :
- standard view of the content of one folder
- search results
- virtual folders (a folder that will show results of a given search)
Each folder would feed the message list view so that the message list view can build a message thread with them. By this mean, we could, for example, include our replied messages into the message thread. So that the thread won’t be missing some messages.
A website for etpanX is now available. However, no download is available yet. Contact me if you want to preview etpanX application.
2. Address book application
Here is the list of application that exists to manage contacts.
Addresses
- that’s only for GNUStep environment.
- has inline editor but we need to click on ‘Edit’ to go in editor mode
kaddressbook
- editor for contact opens a new window
- search field is available in the main window
Evolution address book
- bloated application
- editor for contact opens a new window
- search field is available in the main window
Contacts
- editor for contact opens a new window
- search field is available in the main window
A nice standalone address book application would have the following feature :
- a list of groups.
- work in vCard format natively so that other applications can read its data.
Or that could export to vCard automatically.
- a searchable list of contacts using name, phone numbers, emails or other search type.
- view of the contact card.
- edition of each field should be enabled by activating the field. The field would change into an edition field so that the user could change the value.
3. Music
