GitHub user ctubbsii opened an issue:
https://github.com/apache/incubator-ponymail/issues/111
Thread view needs some improvement
The threading display is a bit confusing with quoted text. The color bars
on the left are too subtle to be used for real demarcation of quoted portions,
and don't work at all for people with difficulty discerning color on their
screen.
With a complex thread with multiple replies, the order can be quite
confusing as well.
Compare [This lists.apache.org thread][1] and [This Fedora (hyperkitty)
thread][2].
In the latter, the indentation makes things much easier to follow, and the
quoted portions are subdued a bit better. Though the latter isn't perfect, it
does do a slightly better job of threading, and removing duplicate information
from each response (like the list address).
Perhaps PonyMail's threading could be improved by adopting more indentation
to show the threading in a more layout-driven way rather than color-driven way.
PonyMail works best when there are no inline responses, but email list
threads do include many inline responses, and broken quoted portions,
interspersed throughout the conversation.
[1]:
https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/b478645815bf7b1fee8342a21924162decc173d91c22eaf5f708a435@%3Cdev.fluo.apache.org%3E
[2]:
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/de...@lists.fedoraproject.org/thread/MU5IJ2JR6OFMSV6CPHUV7NNKPQPH4GCA/
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