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Comment on [#12720] Mark sent-mail folders to show up in / hide from special folder container
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>>> Quite frankly, the number of people that have more than 2-3 >>> identities is extremely small. So adding an additional parameter >>> just for this few people is not a great idea. >> >> The people around me (e.g. in my GnuPG keyring) have 3 UIDs / >> identities or more. So that point is not taken. > > The fact that you know what a GnuPG keyring is means that you are in > the 1% of users. > > We have Horde/IMP installations that have *millions* of users. These > are "Gmail" type users - they want a simple e-mail client. Most of > them only have 1 identity. This would thus be adding a feature that > would potentially negatively affect the 99% of users while only > benefitting 1% of users. > > That doesn't mean it can't be done. But that means you have to think > out the UI/UX before going forward so that those 99% of users AREN'T > affected just to give advanced functionality for a few. > >> Also frankly said, I could completely do without the special folder >> container and just have all folders in one tree. The special folder >> container takes up so much space (more than half of the sidebar with >> all my sent-mail folders in it). > > At the beginning of the project, we had several usability experts > give us input on this. Their overwhelming recommendation is that > those special mailboxes are necessary for the 99%. Most people only > use a couple of mailboxes. These mailboxes tend to be the special > mailboxes. Thus, those special mailboxes need to be in view and > present at all times. > >> The rest of the mailbox tree is >> buried under it. > > For the record - I have something like 200 mailboxes. And I have > never thought there is inadequate space in the mailbox list. > >> So, for me another option would be to have the >> special folder container removed completely (including the INBOX) and >> have all those folders re-intregated into the mailbox tree (I have >> already tested that). Though with a removal of the special folders >> container, I would love to have custom icons for INBOX, sent-mail, >> trash, templates, drafts. > > We would consider a patch for this. But it's going to take a bunch > of work to abstract this. Especially since the current code in > javascript is designed with the special mailboxes section in mind and > there is the Folder Actions menu that would need to be placed > somewhere (quite honestly, it doesn't make much sense to put at the > top of the list, above INBOX, so that's a question that needs to be > addressed before anything is done). > > The custom icon data is already abstracted and completely independent > of the special mailbox location, so there's nothing to do there. > >> Furthermore, I have other ,,important'' folders (mail filtered into >> them by sieve) that I cannot add to the special folders container >> (apart from using the config part in the backend, but that's not user >> specific, but backend specific, so no option). However, this is >> nothing that can be easily worked into the current special folder >> implementation (IMHO). > > This is exactly what the special_mboxes backends.php config option is > for. Granted, this is a config file only, as opposed to a > user-editable thing. But that is simply because nobody has taken the > time to write the UI for it. It neither interests me greatly, nor > has anyone funded the work, so that's why it doesn't exist.
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