Show recipients in each thread envelope

[st3iny]

Ref #4258

Here is my suggestion for showing the recipients of individual envelopes in threads. The design is up for discussion.

cc @StCyr @ChristophWurst

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EDIT: removed outdated gif

[StCyr]

#4258 (comment)

another important issue is that you don´t see who is in "from" and who is in "cc".
for example in gmail you have on the right side of this email list a small arrow.
when you click on this arrow you see in a popover who is in "from" and who is in "cc".
at the moment you don´t know if you where in cc or not.

[st3iny]

I added a separate line for showing cc recipients. However, I can't come up with a nice way to add a toggle for the additional infos (e.g. cc).

[StCyr]

I find it nice but it may take a lot of space on small screens

[ChristophWurst]

Take a look at this. They have also a list of participants of a thread/message but only with the avatars. We discussed a few times that this is also our goal for the thread participants on top – how about we do the same for the recipients of an individual message?

[kinimodmeyer]

can we not make such a icon with the informations?
(besides the space such a icon would also give you more freedom in show more information in future and also you can implement there a "copy & paste" e-mail list feature) :

please also don´t forget to implement the BCC.
at the moment you can not see if you are in BCC.
gmail shows it this way:

[st3iny]

please also don´t forget to implement the BCC.
at the moment you can not see if you are in BCC.

AFAIK, you cannot disclose the BCC of a received email.

[st3iny]

Take a look at this. They have also a list of participants of a thread/message but only with the avatars. We discussed a few times that this is also our goal for the thread participants on top – how about we do the same for the recipients of an individual message?

We could do that. Our RecipientBubble component uses the UserBubble component from nextcloud-vue. I could implement a new parameter for UserBubble which allows to omit the label span and just show an avatar.

I moved the participant list to its own component (ThreadAvatarHeader) so all changes will be propagated to both participant/recipient lists.

[kinimodmeyer]

please also don´t forget to implement the BCC.
at the moment you can not see if you are in BCC.

AFAIK, you cannot disclose the BCC of a received email.

when the sender don´t fill out the "to" but the sender fills out the "bcc" then the email has no "to".
in that case it would be good when nextcloud mail not "lying" and don´t display a "to".
(have a look at the picture i posted)

[st3iny]

@kinimodmeyer Hmm, I guess showing an empty to line is kind of pointless. I pushed a commit that removes the whole To: line when it's empty (just like CC).

[jancborchardt]

How about we only show that block for each thread envelope if it differs from the main thread?
We could even indicate what the difference is, e.g. "Richard Steinmetz was added" or "Christoph Wurst was removed", which would be great for security even, if someone is added.

This would be much more useful, since otherwise if we just show it for every single envelope, it’s mostly noise repeating the same info over and over again?

[ChristophWurst]

@st3iny is this still blocked?

[st3iny]

@st3iny is this still blocked?

We need to figure out how to implement/design it properly. But it's not blocked by dependencies or other PRs.

[jancborchardt]

How about we only show that block for each thread envelope if it differs from the main thread? We could even indicate what the difference is, e.g. "Richard Steinmetz was added" or "Christoph Wurst was removed", which would be great for security even, if someone is added.

This would be much more useful, since otherwise if we just show it for every single envelope, it’s mostly noise repeating the same info over and over again?

@st3iny what do you think about my comment above?

[ChristophWurst]

@st3iny 👀 😄

[ChristophWurst]

so

[ChristophWurst]

soo

[ChristophWurst]

Design specs added to #4258 (comment). Let's do this

[ChristophWurst]

I have spent 2h trying to get the specs from #4258 (comment) in.

It takes more effort to get this into a working state and making it look nice.

Closing.