[ge-talk] icon "groups"

[Jorge G. Mare (a.k.a. Koki)]

Niklas Nisbeth wrote:
> Koki wrote:
>   
>> You can already do that (sort of), at least with email, using People 
>> files' Groups attribute and a query.
>>
>> BeMail will show you people under the any particular group as a 
>> single 
>> entry in the To/CC/Bcc address list, allowing you to send an email to 
>> the group w/o having to enter individual email addresses. I believe 
>> there is also an add-on that will allow you to send email to the 
>> group 
>> by just right-clicking on the saved query.
>>
>> Sort of a poorman's mailing list. :-)
>>     
>
> Or 90% of the functionality with 5% of the trouble!
>
> I think the original idea of icon groups is an exciting one, and one 
> that I support, but isn't it more of an OpenTracker feature request or 
> suggestion for a tracker 
> add-on? Basically this boils down to a "open everything in this folder" 
> add-on, doesn't it?
>   

I guess you would need a Tracker addon to initiate the action, but I 
would think that the target application should know what to do. I 
believe you can an email to multiple People from a query, but what would 
happen if the target is an IM client instead? This is probably a more 
unlikely situation, but it is not unthinkable; multiparty IM 
conferencing comes to mind as a potential application, for example.

Cheers,

Koki