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More discoverable multi-select and bulk operations

Open ChristophWurst opened this issue 1 year ago • 4 comments

Problem:

Users didn't know that it is possible to select multiple messages and perform bulk operations such as move, archive, marks as spam or delete.

ChristophWurst avatar Oct 03 '24 13:10 ChristophWurst

@ChristophWurst wasn't this tracked in another issue?

marcoambrosini avatar Oct 11 '24 14:10 marcoambrosini

It's https://github.com/nextcloud/mail/issues/10194

ChristophWurst avatar Oct 14 '24 05:10 ChristophWurst

@marcoambrosini @nimishavijay since neither @ChristophWurst nor me were in the brainstorming session, could you fill the description with more detail on what this is about? :)

jancborchardt avatar Oct 17 '24 08:10 jancborchardt

Design call outcome:

  • On desktop: show checkbox on hover (either overlay or replace avatar)
  • On mobile: click on avatar
  • Remove select action from the actions menu
  • Take important bulk actions out of the 3 dot menu

marcoambrosini avatar Oct 17 '24 14:10 marcoambrosini

Design call outcome:

  • On desktop: show checkbox on hover (either overlay or replace avatar)
  • On mobile: click on avatar
  • Remove select action from the actions menu
  • Take important bulk actions out of the 3 dot menu

can you please make a small mock up for the ones you can? Its a bit hard to imagine how it will look like. For example when you say take importand bulk out of 3 dot menu, where to put it if i take it out? Same for Remove select from actions menu.

GretaD avatar Oct 29 '24 16:10 GretaD

In Protonmail and Gmail replace the avatar with the checkbox, so we can also do something like that

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Remove select action from the actions menu

This would just mean don't show "Select" in the 3 dot menu of any mail, so it would look like this:

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Take important bulk actions out of the 3 dot menu

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Once you select something, these actions can be moved out of the menu and just shown up front as icons.

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If all the icons don't fit in the width, they can be put into the a 3 dot menu.

nimishavijay avatar Oct 30 '24 02:10 nimishavijay

In Protonmail and Gmail replace the avatar with the checkbox, so we can also do something like that

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What part of the message is hovered/selected, only the avatar or the whole message?

GretaD avatar Dec 02 '24 16:12 GretaD

What part of the message is hovered/selected, only the avatar or the whole message?

When the avatar is hovered, rest of the message has the normal hover feedback as it exists right now :) (ref hey mail and protonmail, same behaviour :) )

nimishavijay avatar Dec 03 '24 04:12 nimishavijay

What part of the message is hovered/selected, only the avatar or the whole message?

When the avatar is hovered, rest of the message has the normal hover feedback as it exists right now :) (ref hey mail and protonmail, same behaviour :) )

i dont have protonmail or hey mail, so i cannot check how it looks like, but my question was, if i hover the message, should the checkmark be shown? Or should it be shown only when i hover the avatar area?

GretaD avatar Dec 03 '24 09:12 GretaD

@GretaD Only when the avatar is hovered/focused – otherwise it would be too distracting if every time you hover a message, the avatar switches to a checkmark. :)

jancborchardt avatar Dec 09 '24 14:12 jancborchardt