Perhaps new users might find this too confusing, but maybe this could be
the advanced view for filters. I really like this layout and the
flexibility that it offers!
The Amigo
The following was originally posted by Matthew Thomas on 4/22/00:
> Well, I don't know how hard the back-end work would be, but the GUI
> design is already done ... I designed this when I first saw the
> filter GUI in 4.x in 1998.
>
> By default, it would look like this:
>
> Filter messages which match
> +--------------------------------------------------------------+-+
> |[all of the following :^] ( More ) : X : |A|
> | | |:|
> | +-[subject :^] [contains :^] [| ] : X : |:|
> | |:|
> | |:|
> | |:|
> | |:|
> | |:|
> | |:|
> | |:|
> | |V|
> +--------------------------------------------------------------+-+
> and perform the action [move to folder :^] [Trash :^]
>
>
> That's not really all that more complicated than the 4.x GUI, for
> those who just want simple filters. The only addition is the `X'
> buttons, which delete the current row -- something which you can't do
> in 4.x (if you want to delete a row other than the last one in 4.x,
> you're stuck).
>
> But for those users who want full Boolean filters, by selecting `all
> of the following' or `any of the following' from the popup menus
>
> +----------------------+
> | subject |
> | sender |
> | body |
> | date |
> | priority |
> | to |
> | to or CC |
> | age in days |
> |----------------------|
> | all of the following |
> | any of the following |
> +----------------------+,
>
> they could pretty easily get to something like this:
>
> Filter messages which match
> +--------------------------------------------------------------+-+
> |[all of the following :^] ( More ) : X : |A|
> | | |:|
> | +-[any of the following :^] ( More ) ( X ) |:|
> | | | |:|
> | | +-[sender :^] [ends with :^] [bucksch.org ] ( X ) |:|
> | | | |:|
> | | +-[sender :^] [contains :^] [garcia ] ( X ) |:|
> | | |:|
> | +-[subject :^] [contains :^] [[OFFTOPIC] ] ( X ) |:|
> | |:|
> | |V|
> +--------------------------------------------------------------+-+
> and perform the action [delete message :^]
>
> I'd like to see the same GUI used in the Find dialog for messages and
> bookmarks and stuff too.
