798272 - [Email] [VD implementation] Drawer. List alignment wrong

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 940132

(Firefox OS Graveyard :: Gaia::E-Mail, defect, P3)

Description

[Victoria Gerchinhoren [:vicky]]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.6; rv:2.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/4.0
Build ID: 20110318052756



Actual results:

The list has more indentation in the first element


Expected results:

The left alignment should be the same for all.
See: https://www.dropbox.com/sh/gn7qomol29ezppj/h3oHj8AjhG

Comment 1

[Steve Chung [:steveck]]

Hi Patryk, we use indentation for representing the sub-folder here. Please help provide some comment about the folder display(No indentation for all folders or any way to represent sub-folder).

Comment 2

[Victoria Gerchinhoren [:vicky]]

Do you have an example of when you need a subfolder? Because in the design you have a subtitle that indicates that the listed below are "folders". Will you be able to create subfolders in sent, trash and things like that?

https://www.dropbox.com/s/ww9fjv19csjn5md/04%20Email_Drawer.png

Comment 3

[Andrew Sutherland [:asuth] (he/him)]

The ability to create sub-folders is a limitation ultimately decided upon by the server.  Usually, you can put folders under anything.  We must support sub-folders because the servers expose them.

Note that there can be odd cases:
- Yahoo webmail's UI won't let you create sub-folders; if you try and put a "/" in the folder name, it gives you an error.  However, its IMAP server will let you create sub-folders, and these are exposed to the UI with "/" delimiting the components.
- gmail's folders are actually labels with a flat hierarchy, but I believe you can create a fake hierarchy by putting "/" in.  It's been a while since I've checked this.

Comment 4

[Andrew Sutherland [:asuth] (he/him)]

Er, and it's worth pointing out that the e-mail app does not surface the ability to create folders in the UI right now.  (The back-end supports it, but there is no UI.)

Comment 5

[ayman maat :maat]

RFI to vicky to confirm that this bug is still valid as i am unsure.

Comment 6

[Sreenidhi]

Attachment: Folders/Sub folders in email

Comment 7

[Sreenidhi]

I believe Starred, Important, Junk could possibly be sub-folders of incoming messages. That is, messages in Inbox could be categorized under these 3.  But Drafts, Sent Mail and Trash are not sub-folders of Inbox because they do not hold incoming messages.

One solution could be possibly, listing Starred, Important, Junk as sub-folders under Inbox and Drafts, Sent Mail, Trash separately (i.e all 3 separately and not together as sub-folders of anything).

Comment 8

[Eric Pang [:epang] UX]

Hi Victoria, what's the status of this bug?  Has it been resolved, or does it still need attention?

Comment 9

[Victoria Gerchinhoren [:vicky]]

Hi Eric. This solution should come from IA, since the drawer changed in complexity and interaction, the indented folders provide a lot of visual complexity to the portion of screen that the drawer occupies + the user account button at the top, so an IA proposal that solves this complexity is needed before any kind of visual solution.

Thanks!

Comment 10

[Stephany Wilkes]

Flagging Product: Is subfolder creation a requirement? Will re-evaluate after that. Thanks!

Comment 11

[Peter Dolanjski [:pdol]]

(In reply to Stephany Wilkes from comment #10)
> Flagging Product: Is subfolder creation a requirement? Will re-evaluate
> after that. Thanks!

Not a priority at the moment, but I've added it to a backlog for evaluation.  I'm not sure if folder creation ability affects the defect this bug is referring to, though.

Comment 12

[Jim Porter (:squib)]

Attachment: Proper folder hierarchy

(In reply to Sreenidhi from comment #7)
> I believe Starred, Important, Junk could possibly be sub-folders of incoming
> messages. That is, messages in Inbox could be categorized under these 3. 
> But Drafts, Sent Mail and Trash are not sub-folders of Inbox because they do
> not hold incoming messages.

Your screenshot is from an old version of the email app which had a bug in presenting the folder hierarchy. That's since been fixed, and it now looks like the attached screenshot (which is how the folder hierarchy will be shown in any IMAP client, e.g. Thunderbird).

Comment 13

[Andrew Sutherland [:asuth] (he/him)]

The drawer is being overhauled for v1.4/haida on bug 940132 which was initiated by UX/IX, so I think the desires indicated in comment 9 have been addressed.  Duping to that bug since there was non-trivial conversation on this bug.

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