Tackling Improvements One Step At A Time: Sailfish Mail Client *Week 1*
One of our trusty stalwarts (Andrei) over at our community port suggested we – the Jolla community at large – start compiling ideas for improving Sailfish one step at a time.
While everything works on the whole in Sailfish largely as it should, of course there is always room for improvement (as with anything) especially when trying to keep up with the big boys (Android/Apple).
Rather than be bamboozled by all the different elements that could be improved all at once (obviously not feasible), Andrei suggested we pinpoint an app or element of Sailfish every week and compile a list of important features you/we the community feel to be missing. Then once we have the list, we vote here to get the top eg. 5 manageable points for Jolla to focus on and then present it over at the main “together” website.
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So, with that being said, to get the ball rolling this week our focus is going to be on the Sailfish Native Email Client. What features do you miss (if anything), or how could it be generally improved?
To contribute, either comment below, or head to the designated thread started by Andrei at our forum where you can contribute your ideas there.
After we have a representative list of ideas, we will put your ideas to vote here so we can then present (eg. the top 5 most requested features) to the Jolla together portal for Jolla to implement into a future software update.
Ideas for next weeks target area for improvement in Sailfish OS also most welcomely received.
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So an example post could read like this:-
Sailfish Email Client Improvements:
1/ …….
2/ …….
3/ …….
Next weeks target area: ……..
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Keeping it simple is really key lets keep on point and just list your chosen improvements (if any).
Thanks and Sail On! :)
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1. Search
2. Checking selected subfolders for incoming mail (only possible with Inbox atm)
3. Update speedup (sometimes it takes ages to update subfolder not visited for ~2 weeks with only few new emails)
I am not sure if I understood correctly what you are trying to do, but isn’t this just another way of doing what together.jolla.com already does?
You are basically gathering improvement suggestions and then counting votes for each one.
Don’t get me wrong. Any initiative of supporting the development of Jolla and Sailfish OS is great, but I don’t see too many differences compared to the existing TJC.
Maybe it would help if you tried writing an article about the most wanted changes requested on TJC, broken down on different topics (just like you started) and encouraging people to vote their favorite issues and give advice on using proper tags and avoiding adding duplicates.
Thanks Jan nice suggestions. :)
@Drekkarian thanks for the input, the reason for doing this I feel is threefold:
1/ Together has SO much information/feature request posts that it feels quite daunting knowing where to start in terms of prioritising.
2/ With that in mind, this system aims to simplify the process by making it all the more manageable by controlling the flow of information.
3/ Some people who may comment here may not contribute on Together at all. The blog system allows quick and easy responses. Then we (andrei/me) do the rest of the work.
This all combined with a controlled rate of prioritising, leads to a more attainable goal for Jolla each month.
Put it this way, if Jolla are thrown 1000 or more ideas (as is the case on Together) they will never get anything done as there is no way of knowing how to prioritise, but if they are presented with a whittled down shortlist produced by the community every few weeks this IMO is far more manageable and attainable given the circumstances.
Let me know what you think… :)
Thanks for the extra details.
It is clear to me that your intentions are good, however, you are basically saying that Jolla can’t handle the volume of requests on TJC and you want to add an extra layer on top, gathering requests, sorting them and then posting on TJC.
This is definitely useful for those who do not use TJC, and, of course, structured and aggregated data is helpful.
I still think that you can also extract a lot of details from the existing entries in TJC.
For example, you can see here all the email related requests, ordered by the number of votes:
https://together.jolla.com/questions/scope:all/sort:votes-desc/tags:email/page:1/
There are also discussions like this one:
https://together.jolla.com/question/319/enhancements-of-the-email-client/
…which aggregate a lot of user requests and already have a lot of votes.
Helping Jolla sort this information out would save them a lot of time.
Thanks I really appreciate your input on this drek. I think we’ll just run with this for a trial and see how it goes – I haven’t much time and like I said this was really a member of our forums original idea and I’m just supporting that idea as I think it is very valid.
Either way we’ll compare notes with the entries you mentioned and work with what has been delivered on TJC which will only add more weight to prioritising ie. certain features
The point is TJC (and Sailfish) have now been out in the public domain for almost 11 months now. However there are still some critical features that people feel lacking. We’re just shaking things up again starting with a clean slate to try and spur some attainable goals for the Jolla crew and developers alike.
Thanks to everyone for the input so far!
Thank you, as well, for the extra details and good luck on your initiative.
As I said, any kind of help is great.
So to support you, my choices would be:
1. Sending HTML formatted emails (configurable)
2. Search
3. Select subfolders which should update automatically.
Next app: People/Phone
Wher can I give my improvements?
@bobo for improvements related to sailfish email app right here (like Jan Palus) or: /forums/discussion/197/sailfish-mail-app-missing-featuresbug-reports#Item_4
1. PGP/GPG Suppoert
Sailfish Email Client Improvements:
1/ Change the sender adress (i.e. sending from an account [email protected], but want [email protected] as the sender’s address)
2/ If an account does not work, the client tries, and tries, and tries…
Next weeks target area: Map app
You can already change the sender address when you compose a new email.
SD handling in general:
In-phone possibility to format as fat32/BTRFS/EXFAT/etc.
Proper support of SD in Android apps.
Proper support of handling media from SD
Supporting files >#GB (fat32 max file size) on SD (for example: movies), maybe exfat or btrfs?
Proper handling of SD-card on pc: it’s unstable and slow.
/1 Make is possible to disable top posting while answering mails
/2 Search
/3 Make it easier to mark/delete mails in bulk
Being able to move from one email to the next/previous without having to go back to the list.
The ability to see full headers.
You feel so pro! As a basic user 1. I hope improvements on display ( in sunshine) impossible to see anything. 2. Volume is very low (ringtones). If its possible to make improvements without new hardware.
/1 check local maildir/mbox
Support GnuPG and S/MIME.
Thank you all for your answers.
Please double check or add some more items:/forums/discussion/197/sailfish-mail-app-missing-featuresbug-reports#Item_10
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