On Thu, 25 Jul 2002 17:26:33 +0200 Xavier Nodet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
XN> Thanks for the feature, Vadim, it will really be usefull. Yes, I think so too. I've already used it twice or thrice to find some messages and that's more than can be said about many other Mahogany features :-) XN> VZ> And now the question: does anybody see a nice way to do it (purely XN> VZ> UI-wise)? We should support searching in just one folder, folder and its XN> VZ> subfolders or a few selected folders. What is the best way to present this XN> VZ> choice? XN> XN> I would simply suggest that if the folder selected to be added (in the XN> list of the folders to look into) is a group folder, then all its XN> sub-folders should be recursively added. This looks like a good idea and simpler (not only to implement but also to use) than my latest idea: have a check listbox of folders and search the checked folders recursively. XN> As there is no message in a group folder itself, choosing to look for XN> messages in such a folder could only mean 'look in its sub-folders', no? Right. XN> In the same way, removing a group folder from the list should remove all XN> its sub-folders also. This is a second (minor) drawback of your proposal. The first one (enumerating them in logical order ;-) is that it's difficult to search just in the folder having some subfolders because when you add it all of them appear in the listbox as well and you have to delete them manually later. And for me it would be inconvenient because I have Mahogany folder under which I have: BugMessages, BugReports, CVS, ListAdmin and TODO folders. So to look only in Mahogany folder I'd have to do "Remove" 5 times. The advantage of the check listbox is that you only have to check/uncheck one item to toggle between searching recursively or not. And removing is simpler, too. Are there any problems with this approach I'm missing? XN> I would add that the 'search...' option should be available with XN> a right-click on the folder. Why not. I try to keep the context menus as short as possible but maybe we could remove the "Delete" command from the menu to make place for this one? XN> And would it be possible to have the progress dialog count the number of XN> messages in *all* the looked for folders. My understanding is that XN> currently it is re-created for each folder. Probably, yes. It definitely should, and it should be possible to cancel the search as well. Thanks! VZ ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by: Jabber - The world's fastest growing real-time communications platform! Don't just IM. Build it in! http://www.jabber.com/osdn/xim _______________________________________________ Mahogany-Developers mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/mahogany-developers
