GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 772631
Display notification if reply is adressed at none of the (B)CC adresses
Last modified: 2019-06-22 05:22:11 UTC
Sometimes I hit reply instead of reply all if several people are involved. Therefore it would be nice if some not-obtrusive notification could be displayed, that one maybe has forgotten to reply all or adding some other adresses to (B)CC.
Oh, this is a really good idea, and also having a means to add the other recipients in without needing to trash the message and start again, something like what Geary does for attachments. Maybe an in-app notification taster, with a message and button like: > Replying only to sender. [Add other Recipients] Although it would be nice to have that button always available.
I'm not sure what you mean exactly, you'd like to replace the "reply" symbol with a new "reply only autor/sender" symbol? I just had the idea, that you could add the diff to the reply-all-addresses also into the CC/BCC field (exactly as would be done by clicking "reply all"), but in red and crossed out (option a) – or in a separate text entry field right below CC and BCC (option b, but if both CC and BCC is used, maybe two fields are necessary?). This could be done by realizing and converting all addresses into a address-object (like in MS Outlook) which provides these styles. Activation and deactivation could be done through a mouseclick-menu, which could be reflected by just unmarking them. Or a checkmark/cross symbol could be appended right behind the name, which can lead to a status toggle by just clicking on it (for easier reversion).
Oh, If you reply to a message that has attachments, Geary displays a button on the composer toolbar that when clicked will attach all of the original message's attachments to the reply. So I was thinking of something like that, but for addresses that weren't included in the reply. However I think I like where you're going with this better. So including the addresses in the CC/BCC field when doing a Reply instead of a Reply-To but indicating somehow they won't be sent with the message? If I'm not mistaken, this would require implementing Bug 713348.
Ah, I didn't recognize this pretty useful button, maybe due to my Adapta theme, thanks for heads up! I think your approach would be way faster to implement, but if you like to realize the address objects, it would also be nice to (de)activate every address separately (with maybe not that much more work). Yes, I thought that not including could be realized as crossed out and red… or gray. Whatever you like! :)
Yep, using objects is a great suggestion, hopefully we'll get it into 0.13. PS, can you send/attach a screenshot of the composer button? I'd be curious to know if we can improve that somehow.
Created attachment 339210 [details] "Add attachments" icon in Adapta theme
Sorry for the delay, I added the icon. I don't think it's bad, I just didn't recognize it…
Thanks for the screenshot. That's also how it looks under Adwaita, for the record. We're using the icon edit-copy-symbolic for it, but perhaps there's something better out there - free to open a new bug about that.
Bump tickets to 0.14 that aren't going to make 0.13.
Closing in favour of https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/geary/issues/471