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Bug 772763 - display "Subject:" before subject
display "Subject:" before subject
Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX
Product: geary
Classification: Other
Component: ux
master
Other Linux
: Normal normal
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Assigned To: Geary Maintainers
Geary Maintainers
Depends on: 765516
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2016-10-11 15:08 UTC by Adam Dingle
Modified: 2016-10-22 15:57 UTC
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Description Adam Dingle 2016-10-11 15:08:27 UTC 
With recent changes in master, Geary no longer displays "Subject:" before each email's subject line.

My opinion is not super strong, but I would vote to keep displaying "Subject:", for several reasons:

1. When a subject is a person's name (a common case) or is very short or cryptic, it may now not be obvious that this line is, in fact, the subject.

2. When a subject begins with "Re:", it now appears at first glance that "Re" is a header field.  For example, a message may now look like this:

  Re: Geary title bar
  To: Adam Dingle adam@medovina.org
  Cc: Joe Schmoe joe@schmoe.org

3. The composer displays a header field "Subject", so it would be consistent to show this when displaying messages as well.
Comment 1 Michael Gratton 2016-10-22 03:41:06 UTC 
Maybe the composer should use a placeholder instead? ;)

I've just added some commentary to Bug 714025, since per that and the GNOME Mail designs I would prefer to remove the Subject from individual messages altogether - the redundancy is somewhat annoying (doubly so in having it labelled), but it may not be feasible to remove for a number of use cases.

Are you happy to discuss the larger design further in light of the above over on Bug 714025?
Comment 2 Adam Dingle 2016-10-22 15:57:02 UTC 
As I mentioned above I really don't feel strongly about this.  If you'd like to move in the direction of removing the subject from individual messages anyway, then the points I've made are somewhat moot.  Let's just mark this as WONTFIX.  I'd rather not get involved in the detailed design discussion at bug 714025, but am on board with that general idea.