Re: Functional requirements for Gnus

[Robert Bihlmeyer <e9426626@stud2.tuwien.ac.at>]

>>>>> On 28 Aug 1998 11:29:47 +0200
>>>>> Kai Grossjohann <grossjohann@amaunet.cs.uni-dortmund.de> said:

 Kai> I find that there are at least three different ways of
 Kai> presenting MIME messages to the user (especially multipart
 Kai> messages).

You seem to be mainly concerned with multipart/mixed. What about
multipart/alternative? m/digest, m/parallel, m/related should probably
be treated much like m/mixed. There are also multipart/signed,
multipart/encrypted, which should be handed over to mailcrypt.

 Kai> (1) `The TM alternative'

 Kai>     [...] Textual parts also have the text included below the
 Kai>     button. [...]

This can extend to graphical parts at least in XEmacs. Hell, videos
even.

 Kai> (2) `The digest alternative'

Autoexplosion should be possible, like the following:

 Kai>     But how should the original article be displayed? One
 Kai>     possibility would be to split the article window into two
 Kai>     parts, one showing the nndoc digest summary and the other
 Kai>     showing the message part currently selected.
[...]

 Kai>     Another possibility would be to
 Kai>     concatenate the textual parts, maybe interspersed with
 Kai>     little markers showing where the non-textual MIME parts are.

The latter is like (1) really, isn't it.

 Kai> (3) `The X u alternative'

I think this is like (2), only with the submessages in the summary
buffer, rather than a separate buffer.

	Robbe

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