Clickable user interface

[hugoroy]

One of astroid's promise is to be both keyboard-drivable and clickable. I think it's a very worthy goal.

However at the moment, that's not true. Here's a list of things where clicking does not trigger any action. I have ordered the list in a hierarchical way, i.e. what I think is most important first.

• [ ] (general) The Yes/No dialogs are not clickable any more (e.g. when you quit astroid)

• [ ] (thread view) Clicking on an attachment or HTML part to open it

• [ ] (thread view) Clicking on a non-focused email to bring focus - clicking on a focused email preview / email headers to expand / un-expand the focused email

• [ ] (thread view) Clicking on a tag to open a "tag:xxxx" query in a new tab

• [ ] (thread view) Right-Click on a mail address: copy the email address (rather than the 'mailto:' link) #296

• [ ] (general) Make tabs closable like in other GTK apps with a small "x"

Do you see anything else?

Edit: I am going to maintain this list, but feel free to open new issues / pull request specifically for an item above. Let me know so I can include the reference to the issue / pull request!

[gauteh]

Hugo Roy writes on februar 25, 2017 19:43:

One of astroid's promise is to be both keyboard-drivable and clickable. I think it's a very worthy goal.

Definitely! Thanks for the list and pushing for this! Let us maintain this first post with checkboxes for the items that need attention.

[kirschner]

Thanks for this. I just wanted to submit a bug report about the yes/no part, and then found this issue. I also checked for other places, but could not find anything else than the things @hugoroy mentioned already.

[MarcinWieczorek]

My embedded gvim doesn't have focus when composing a new message or replying. I'm using default config, a quite old one tho. Can anyone confirm?

[gauteh]

Marcin Wieczorek writes on juni 1, 2017 16:05:

My embedded gvim doesn't have focus when composing a new message or replying. I'm using default config, a quite old one tho. Can anyone confirm?

As an alternative you can use the external editor, focus and the embedded editor has been very hard to get right.

[MarcinWieczorek]

I'm using a tiled window manager and it's really convenient to have the editor tabbed in the Astroid client. I hope have some time to have a look into the code. What does the difficulty base on? I'll try to replace gvim with urxvt + vim.

[gauteh]

Marcin Wieczorek writes on juni 1, 2017 18:34:

I'm using a tiled window manager and it's really convenient to have the editor tabbed in the Astroid client. I hope have some time to have a look into the code. What does the difficulty base on? I'll try to replace gvim with urxvt + vim.

Exactly what widget to give focus. I used to have to use a tab_next method to make the widget put focus on some element of the embedded window. Code should be in editor/plugin.*

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[mxmehl]

Since the switch to webext, activating attachments, especially in longer emails, sometimes is a PITA.

Is it hard to implement opening attachments for example by a mouse click? I have little idea of programming so I can't estimate. If there's some guide for it, I can try to take a first shot.

[gauteh]

Max writes on November 9, 2018 11:04:

Since the switch to webext, activating attachments, especially in longer emails, sometimes is a PITA.

Did something change?

Is it hard to implement opening attachments for example by a mouse click? I have little idea of programming so I can't estimate. If there's some guide for it, I can try to take a first shot.

Not very, a little, need to assocaite an A HREF url with each attachment and creata a handler in thread-view.cc (check out id: or mailto: handler).

[mxmehl]

Since the switch to webext, activating attachments, especially in longer emails, sometimes is a PITA.

Did something change?

I think so. In a mail with multiple attachments, one has to press j or k twice to select the next/previous attachment. If there's a mail below the selected mail, a k too much then selects the next mail, and a key press back doesn't go back to the previously selected attachment then.

Not very, a little, need to assocaite an A HREF url with each attachment and creata a handler in thread-view.cc (check out id: or mailto: handler).

Uhm, let me check that, perhaps I can have a try :)

[JayVii]

I suppose this issue is stale. Are there still any plans for this to go forward?

I do believe, that Astroid could be especially relevant for the recently released Linux Phones (namely Librem5 & Pinephone), using GNOME/Phosh as their DE. For now, only Geary delivers a usable (albeit still rather poor) experience on such devices. Astroid could fill a niche here.