Mail: Messages in (priority) inbox take up too much vertical space

[ChristophWurst]

Expected behavior

Have a good overview of my incoming messages, but not just the important ones but possibly also from other sections.

Actual behavior

I see ~20 messages of a mailbox, even on a large screen. For the priority inbox this means I don't even see my favorites. Other messages are hard to spot as I have to scroll down.

This will be even worse once we have #2666

Mail app

Mail app version:

v1.4+

cc @GretaD @jancborchardt @ma12-co @skjnldsv

[ChristophWurst]

What if we limit the numbers of messages shown for important and favs? Gmail does that as well. They even paginate. But I think we can have a simple collapse/expand logic that will always show the top x messages for important/other. Then you can see if there is anything new there but you'll also see the other messages.

[skjnldsv]

Or what about a compact mode?
Gmail does it as well no?
I've seen lots of clients have it too :thinking:
Would just switch to a 44px line with avatar - title - menu ? :shrug:

[ChristophWurst]

44px line with avatar - title - menu ?

But what would that be for an email? avatar - sender -subject - menu? I don't think we can get that into a single line with the fixed width of our second column with meaningful text.

[skjnldsv]

Don't know, would be enough for me :)
Thuunderbird display the email & subject for me ad I manage just fine :shrug:
PS: I just checked Outlook, they display entries bigger than we do, 80px and up to 130px :scream:

[jancborchardt]

What if we limit the numbers of messages shown for important and favs? Gmail does that as well. They even paginate. But I think we can have a simple collapse/expand logic that will always show the top x messages for important/other. Then you can see if there is anything new there but you'll also see the _other_ messages.

Yep, this is what we should do. Limit it to 5 for each section (except the bottom "Other" where we can simply show more to fill up the rest) and then show an entry "Show all important" and "Show all favorites" below that. It could be remembered, so if you want to always see the important ones it will always do that.

We shouldn’t do any collapsing or different views, as this all needs to be maintained.

[ChristophWurst]

then show an entry "Show all important" and "Show all favorites" below that

Okay, but how do we un-show them? That is what I meant by "collapse".

[jancborchardt]

then show an entry "Show all important" and "Show all favorites" below that

Okay, but how do we un-show them? That is what I meant by "collapse".

Exactly like we do in the folder list, the entry changes to "Collapse important" and "Collapse favorites" to go back to only showing 5 entries.

[ChristophWurst]

Done https://github.com/nextcloud/mail/pull/3098#issuecomment-627508932