thunderbird / thunderbird/thunderbird-android
Allow reading messages in select mode
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Description
Once I selected a message, K9 enters "select mode", wherein tapping a message toggles its selection status, rather than opening the message for reading.
It would be really useful if I could somehow read a message while in select mode, and return to the folder to resume the selection process, i.e. the selections should be remembered.
One UI method of achieving this is adding an "open/view" action to the long-press message context menu.
Another, possibly better UI approach could be to have a preview column with e.g. an eye or an arrow pointing right to the right of the messages (to complement the selection box on the left).
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- Open a pull request that references the issue number.
Research direction
Start by reproducing message selection and select mode, then inspect the long-press message context menu and the transition into message reading. Compare the proposed open/view action with the preview-column alternative. Done means a selected message can be read and returning to the folder preserves the existing selections.
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Assessment
- Tech stack
- android, kotlin
- Domain
- mobile
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 5/5
- Estimated time
- Over a week
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 25/100