Being able to navigate while writing a mail

[GretaD]

Feature Request

As a Nextcloud Mail user I want to navigate the app while the composer is open.

Solution

Move the composer into some sort of popup.

To be able to compose in a new window. Just like other mail apps, would be nice to have this feature. Its more conformable to have your composer in the middle of the screen, without fearing you would accidentally click a message while you write. Also its less distracting.

[jancborchardt]

@GretaD do you want to analyze how for example Gmail, Microsoft365 and Apple Mail do this and post screenshots here so we can have that as a reference for designing it?

[GretaD]

Yes, i can analyze gmail.

[jancborchardt]

What’s definitely nice in Gmail is the ability to compose and still being able to navigate and read other mails. We could think about doing this pane-docked-to-bottom as they do? This is the default, and then you can either minimize it or fullscreen it.

[ChristophWurst]

Even better: if you have this, you could embed Mail into other apps' pages for mailto links and such

[GretaD]

Yes, gmail is the best option so far.

Outlook, has 2 steps to open in a new tab, when you click "New Message" it opens the composer on the third column, just like what we have it now. And then if you open in a new window it looks like this:

Apple(from internet) more or less like outlook.

[jancborchardt]

Even better: if you have this, you could embed Mail into other apps' pages for mailto links and such

Yup, this would be a killer integration and we wouldn’t have to rip people out of the flow. We should then also make it the default just like Gmail does, so there’s no different modes.

[DrRSatzteil]

Ideally I think this should be made available to other apps as well. This would be very useful for talk for example and it would definitely make sense to have a similar look when it is used with other apps. So in my opinion it would make sense to have a more generic approach for this component to make it reusable in other contexts.