GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 310973
Hide/fold quoted text when reading mail
Last modified: 2019-05-24 07:08:11 UTC
It would be nice to have such feature. The letters with huge nest quote level are very hard to deal with without it. This is needed for mainly the mail view mode. Please don't blame if this is gtkhtml-related, but I saw #271358 which covers rather close things.
Vitaly: Can you please try the same with latest version of Evolution and update this bug ?
What exactly version should I probe? Latest release or from CVS?
Heh, sorry, it seems I specified wrong version first time. That request covers evo from the latest FC4 update, namely evolution-2.2.3-2
Confirming for enhancement
Also see bug 322321 for the same request for the mail *composer*.
*** Bug 732346 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
I think it should be pretty much simple to implement with Webkit previews, making block-quote paragraph styles in CSS as display:none; or something like that, possibly with a replacement like ">...." thus it's understood that the citation is hidden, with those dots being clickable to show all (not only that one?) quotation again. The hard thing is with a UI. I think such option, "Show quoted text", can be added into a context menu above the massage preview panel, being checked by default. Maybe once Tomas gets some free time he will be able to do it.
1) how did other clients implement this, UI-wise? Per message switch for all quoting levels? Per message switches for each quoting level? Preferences setting for default display of messages (quotes collapsed or expanded)? There's like some research to be done here to not screw up the UI. 2) similar functionality (expand/collapse) in a similar place (email message) is already expressed via [+] buttons, like already existing for the header bar of the message preview pane.
(In reply to comment #8) > 1) how did other clients implement this, UI-wise? Per message switch for all > quoting levels? Per message switches for each quoting level? Preferences > setting for default display of messages (quotes collapsed or expanded)? > There's like some research to be done here to not screw up the UI. > Not that hard. There was a setting for default display of messages. Then, there was a keybinding to unwrap one level of quotes (or a user simply clicks on the '+' sign. The other way to do it (perhaps, even more simple one) would be to replace all the folded text to "[...]" , which gets unrolled by double clicking on that string. > 2) similar functionality (expand/collapse) in a similar place (email message) > is already expressed via [+] buttons, like already existing for the header bar > of the message preview pane. This could be reused, with some emphasis on readability (the folded stuff should be easily noticeable from within of email body - like [...] from the above, or something similar). I also think it could be practical to show-all as proposed above, but then leaving the first line (or configurable n lines of the quotation) -so that to avoid unrolling the whole thing just to remember what was there. Thanks for waking this thread back to life :) !
This would be particularly useful for auto-folding messages written "top-posting" style. Not sure how, but there ought to be a smart way to autodetect top-posting vs inline posting vs bottom posting, and forwards vs replies...
I'm closing this in favour of [1]. See it for any further updates. [1] https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/evolution/issues/450