Nylas-mail: Show User Avatars in email or email list

Created on 11 Dec 2015 · 21Comments · Source: nylas/nylas-mail

Similar to what Sparrow or Gmail does

Makes it much simpler to scroll through the Inbox. Sources can be Gravatar, Facebook and Twitter. The image of the sender is shown.

design enhancement-request

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KrauseFx

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I've built a quick and dirty plugin that seems to have been working fine from me on a basic level for the past 2-3mo. Here it is. https://github.com/unity/n1-avatars - I'd welcome help to polish and release properly!

There's a few things that I'd love to see in the API to help with caching lookups. I'll post here a bit later

unity on 15 Jun 2016

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grinich on 11 Dec 2015

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herrhaase on 14 Dec 2015

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gilbitron on 18 Dec 2015

@smacking has suggested a design:
Current Design: http://cl.ly/0m2K2Y2l0S3l
My Suggestion: http://cl.ly/0t2f090P121y

Would be great to find a good source of avatar icons for this UI. We've tried using Gravatar in the past, which works alright but often returns pictures people consider "older" than their latest Facebook / Google profile image. Anyone know of other sources we could use?

bengotow on 6 Jan 2016

@bengotow That looks amazing!

I haven't really worked with the Facebook API yet, but it should be possible to get the pictures of Facebook friends and even "strangers" with http://stackoverflow.com/a/10360054/445598.

The first time you launch Sparrow it will ask you to auth with Facebook for that very reason.

KrauseFx on 7 Jan 2016

@KrauseFx Airmail also uses on top of that the Favicons from Websites and checks if there is a Gravatar user registered with the same email.

herrhaase on 7 Jan 2016

Linked in and twitter would be good sources if doable via the API. Checking address / contract book, then linkedin then twitter then gravatar then a fall back default N1 / initials based icon might be a nice cascade option.

foxgeere on 1 Feb 2016

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I currently use Airmail on mac and this is one feature that I really find important. It's not a matter of having eye candy; it simply helps you parse messages faster. As @foxgeere just said, cascading avatar curation is a robust option and with the publicly accessible APIs available, shouldn't be too hard to implement.

amoose136 on 22 Feb 2016

+1 It helps to parse the incoming messages much faster.

jessedobbelaere on 29 Feb 2016

Would love this too. As it is now, where N1 shows the name for every participant in a thread, it makes it very difficult to quickly go through my inbox list. I kinda get the felling that I need to read each and every message whereas having a profile picture makes it much faster to pick individual messages from the list.

lmartins on 14 Mar 2016

Single most useful feature for any email client. Please, yes!

inadarei on 15 Mar 2016

:+1: Really looking forward to this in a future release! As @KrauseFx and @herrhaase mentioned, Facebook integration followed by Gravatar and favicon lookups would probably do the trick.