[MlMt] "tagging" messages

Benny Kjær Nielsen mailinglist at freron.com
Fri Jan 10 15:24:09 EST 2014


On 10 Jan 2014, at 17:55, Kee Hinckley wrote:

> 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?

The above is essentially what I have written down about this (but I 
haven't implemented any of it yet). As usual, it's impossible to know 
when it'll happen, but it's certainly not a feature I oppose in any way.

-- 
Benny
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