I would really like to be able to reply to a message, I think this will be really useful in groups, but I think replying to a message is actually a subset of the quoting functionality!!! where replying to a messages is full quoting the message, but quoting is more flexible since you can partially quote a message, so you can reply to a specific part of the message.
I’m sorry to being negative on that one. Since initially I wanted something similar myself.
But I found it’s most obvious and reasonable to answer for an old message just via your MUA – regular email client. Than it brings the answer to current discussion and let you continue talking on the topic. So maybe we actually need a way to open a message in MUA.
Though the chat could win from giving user the context of the message, because sometimes I click info-button in chat to see full-message.
What if we could use standard e-mail threading properties (reply-to and so on) to implement responses to older message? It would significantly improve experience of reading emails from people out of Delta who send answers for different threads to you; sometimes I have three different topics of different pace with one correspondent.
If Delta identify message in conversation, which is being replied to, then it should be shown in the style @bennisinitially attached. (When it’s not previous message.)
If you want to reply to an arbitrary message in conversation. then your reply should properly refer to this message. That way people will get nice thread branch in traditional MUA as well will see chat-style reply in Delta.
When you just add a message in conversation it refers to the last message if time from
reply to last message is small [^1], and start new “thread” if the time is over threshold. The threshold should be customizable (even could be adaptive in future).
There also could be an icon if new thread will be started by your message (maybe with horizontal line). And if you want to continue previous thread you should select a previous message (last or another) for reply; alternatively the icon could be clickable just to continue last thread (remove the line) — last option need additional coding for usability, first option relies on previous features.
What to do with inline responses?
[^1]: Currently I usually just send a new mail from MUA if there was no chat activity with the person for an hour or two. And if counterparty is actively engages in the conversation, then I take advantage of Delta to speed things up.
Personally I use (i) button to check the whole message.
Though the problem is hotter with people who doesn’t want install DC, as they get really tense on these emails. (
Hi!
I don’t understand, I started to use DC from few days, but when I reply to a not-DC user, my reply is at the bottom.
I had understood instead, that was switched for a best reading, am I right?
Currently bottom-posting style is always used, same as how it is displayed in the messenger UI. DC does not keep quote from the quoted message, so it does not become a copy of the full conversation over time, like it usually happens with top-posting email clients.
When receiving, DC can handle both quote styles. So it should not be a problem to switch quoting style or make an option if needed.
If it is important for you to make DC use top posting style, maybe open another feature request.
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