Hello, all~ My name is David Morrison, I was selected by GNOME and Google to participate in Google's Summer of Code project working on Evolution. I will be a sophmore at Harvey Mudd College in the fall, and am pursuing a joint major in computer science and math.
Anyways, I've been working pretty closely with Bryan Clark on this project, and I've put together a spec for what I'm doing, which you can read at http://www.cs.hmc.edu/~dmorrison/soc/Spec_revised.pdf -- the basic rundown of my project is that I am going to be adding a Gmail-style conversation view to Evolution, so that all messages in one conversation can be seen in one continuous stream. Bryan asked me to email this list and ask for thoughts and suggestions on the proposal. (Bryan also put together a couple mockups that work a little bit better with evo's look-and-feel than mine do; you can see them here: http://www.cs.hmc.edu/~dmorrison/soc/conversation_email.png and http://www.cs.hmc.edu/~dmorrison/soc/conversation_email_reply.png) Here are a few specific questions I have about the project as a whole: - First of all, how feasible is what I'm talking about doing? Will it fit in easily with the direction the Evolution is going? In other words, will the work I'm doing be accepted by the Evo community, and if not, is there some way I could change stuff to make it acceptable? - Secondly, are there any foreseeable problems coding these changes? What are going to be the trickiest parts? - A couple questions more related to the overall design: What do you guys think of having an in-line reply box in the message view pane, like Gmail does? I said in the spec that I thought it probably wouldn't fit as well, but Bryan seems to think it would be ok. - I also said in the spec that using color to distinguish between senders would not work as well, but I'm now thinking (and Bryan agrees) that using a bit of color here and there would make things less a wash of black-and-white. Any thoughts on this one? Any other comments or suggestions you guys have are also welcome. Thanks in advance for your help! David Morrison [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ evolution-hackers maillist - [email protected] http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/evolution-hackers
