[MlMt] "tagging" messages

[Kee Hinckley]

One of the things I miss from Mail is the ability to "label" messages 
with a color, so I can easily browse my mail for different kinds of 
messages that I've tagged with filters.

I was thinking about that, and I thought about the fact that in that 
sentence I just used the words "label", "color" and "tagged". Those are 
really different concepts (well, perhaps labels and tags are the same), 
but they all combine to mean "make it easy to identify types of 
messages.

When I started this message, I was thinking of requesting the addition 
of the ability to color messages, but now I'm thinking that perhaps what 
I'd rather have is the ability to associate visual attributes with 
MailMate's existing tags. If I could specify that a tag has a color 
and/or icon associated with it, we could use the existing capabilities 
to visually identify items. "Flagged" messages already implicitly do 
this. But I like the idea of being able to have arbitrary icons and 
colors.

Less clear is what to do when there is more than one tag. You could 
always prioritize them by the order of tags in the attributes panel. But 
it might be nice to combine them in some way. Colors could literally be 
combined, but I don't know if that would really work. Icons could show 
one in the column, and more in the header?

A little stream-of-consciousness there, sorry. But I thought I'd bring 
it up to see what people thought.

Back to work.
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