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TODO:
- Put an applet in the notification tray area
- Show totals at the bottom. Under the mailbox titles, show the number of
mailboxes
-- Old milestones
Milestone 0 (base functionality for first public release)
- Find a web page for it
- Announce in Gnome-Announce
- Announce in Erlug
- Announce in 242096@bugs.debian.org
- Announce in gtkmm-list as a small program using lots of gtk-- features
- Add menu entry as in #269400
Milestone 1 (polishing)
- Add a "time last message arrived" column, sortable
- Catch SIGHUP and issue a reload
- Add a commandline option to issue a reload to a running buffy
- Maintain a pidfile in ~/.buffy/pid (but there may be more than one buffy
running)
- Add imap support
libc-client-dev
- Add "Add IMAP" button in Preferences dialog
- Don't crash if a mailbox disappears: just issue a rescan, or simply remove that mailbox
- Preferences menu/locationList: include a column with the number of mailboxes
found
- Run an update when the double-click command returns
(requires catching SIGCHLD and transforming it in a signal in a thread-safe way)
- Allow to drag a row and drop it as the mailbox path
+ Remember window position between invocations
+ Save column sorting order
+ Asked in gtkmm-list (useless)
+ Found in new documentation for gtk--
- Quit the preferences dialog with ESC, and confirm it with Enter
Milestone 2 (per-box customization)
- Have a look at gnubiff, which also has auto-detection of mailbox format
http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/gnubiff/gnubiff-2.0.0.tar.gz?download
- Implement "mailbox classes", with different predefined but hardcoded options
per class. For example:
- personal
displayed on top of the others, checked more often
- sent-mail
not displayed by default
- archival
important archived things, as well as spam and viruses; not displayed by
default, different archival policy
- Right click pops up a menu
- Allow to hide folders from the right-click menu
- Add a view/hidden menu item, off by default
- When viewing hidden mailboxes, show them in a different style
(grayed?)
- Implement marking rows as "don't hide"
- Implement marking rows as "always hide"
- Implement setting folder "class" from a list of predefined ones
- Invocation of external tools, if found:
- archivemail to archive the old and/or read messages
(archival strategy depends on folder class)
- archivemail to save a mbox file with the given folder
- Add a type() method to MailFolder to allow to give a description of the type
in some property or details window
- View folder class in the list, sortable
- Allow to "lock" class sorting, and maintain all the other sort orders as
secondary orders
- Allow to setup which mail account is used for any specific mailbox (or
mailbox classes), then pass profile informations to the mailer when invoked
Milestone 3 (more storage formats)
- Add mbox support
- Add MH support
- Automatic folder harvesting
- Folder locations can be:
- Directory paths to be searched for mbox files and maildir or MH dirs
- IMAP servers
- If folder location is a directory, first scan it as a maildir or mh, then
scan its subdirectories
- If folder location is a file, scan it as an mbox
- Auto-detect mailbox type
- Do not run an update when adding folder to the list
(allows to later do updates in separate threads for handling slow-update
formats like mailbox or maybe imap)
Milestone 4 (undefined yet)
- Highlight mailboxes that have changed as bold and allow the user to clear
the bold flag (e.g. middle mouse button), similar to what xbuffy does.
- Remove the Update button
- Middle click unhighlights the mailbox if highlighted
- If mairix is installed, enable a "find" menu
- [madduck] It would be great to have a mode starting with an empty list and then adding
mailbox lines as they come in. So if I get a message to debian, buffy
prepends (or appends, should be configurable) a line for the debian mailbox
to the end. If I get a mail for the university, the uni mailbox appears
above the debian mailbox. if now another debian mail comes in, debian moves
to the top again. This should be configurable.
[enrico] Here you mean "sort by time of last message arrival"... that's a great
idea! Added in TODO-list. This should be quite easy: it's just a
matter of adding a new column; maybe I could make a custom cell renderer
to display friendly representation for the timestamps like "1 min" or
"1h23m".
- [madduck] Can the GTK window be skinned to have it take up very little space on the
desktop, like xbuffy? I think this would combine great with point 2.
[enrico] I need help on this one, as I have no experience on more
graphically creative uses of Gtk widgets
- [madduck] buffy should honour mutt's mailbox settings, as i reported in the
bug. #269386
- [madduck] it would be great if maildirs could be scanned recursively for
other maildirs, and the results presented in a threaded view if possible.
- Perform threading: show number of (unread?) messages in threads in which the
user took part
Useful links:
Maildir format:
http://cr.yp.to/proto/maildir.html
Gtk-- documentation:
file:///usr/share/doc/libgtkmm-2.4-doc/index.html
Libxml++ documentation:
file:///usr/share/doc/libxml++1.0-doc/html/index.html
Standard Template Library documentation:
file:///usr/share/doc/stl-manual/html/index.html
* Done in version 0.7
--- 2005-05-09
+ Ported to new libbuffy
+ Save and restore window size and position among invocations
* Done in version 0.6
+ Move scanning code into libbuffy
* Done in version 0.5
--- 2004-10-29
+ Add mbox support
* Done in version 0.4
--- 2004-09-22
+ Add a "view important-only mailboxes", to view mailboxes which have no
unread messages but have old messages marked important
* Done in version 0.3
--- 2004-08-22
+ Format XML when saving config file
+ Configure Mail Program command in Preferences
+ Make a MailProgram class with editor data and able to run an editor
+ Make Config read and return a vector of MailProgram
+ Add the MailProgram class as an hidden list column
+ Add a dialog to edit mail programs
+ Implement add and remove mail program
+ Implement enact and reset on mail program config
+ Ignore "." and ".." in Maildir scan
+ Actually use the configured mail program
+ Running editors leaves them zombies: catch them, and emit a signal to allow
a mailbox update after they terminate
= Make a handler for sigchld that writes to a pipe read my the Gtk I/O
functions: when Gtk reads something, it calls wait, catches all dead
children and fires an update
+ Use Glib::Dispatcher
+ Polish debian packaging and upload to sid
--- 2004-08-21
+ Add a "Settings" menu
* Scanning
+ Update interval
+ List of folder locations
--- 2004-08-20
+ Cache scan results in MailFolder and add an update() method without
parameters to update the values
* Done in version 0.2
--- 2004-08-19
+ Implement saving options
+ Save view empty
+ Save view read
* Automatic folder harvesting
+ implement at least the structure, so that is easy to create patches to
extend it
+ Also scan /var/mail/$USER
+ Save a list of "folder locations" where folders are stored
* Done in version 0.1
--- 2004-08-18
+ Compute stats for Maildir folders
+ Enumerate folders
+ Display results in a TreeView
+ Display also total messages
+ Periodically update the display
+ Double click starts a command
+ Make FolderList sortable
+ Allow to hide folders that are empty
+ Allow to hide folders without unread messages
+ Show the count of flagged ('F') messages
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