Swipe left/right on message to perform action

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Expected behaviour

Swipe right on message in the message list may delete message (like in iOS and AquaMail for Android).

Actual behaviour

Swipe do nothing. There is no such feature.

Steps to reproduce

1. Just try to swipe on the message in message list. Nothing. Only context menu if you will hold your finger on message.

Environment

K-9 Mail version: 5.0.10

Android version: 6.0.1

Account type (IMAP, POP3, WebDAV/Exchange): POP3

[rcorre]

Maybe swipe left to archive, as well.

[jszwedko]

The Gmail app also has this feature; I find it very useful to quickly sort out messages I don't care about.

[lbdroid]

NO.
That is the stupidest thing that could possibly ever be added.
I don't need any email to be randomly deleted by an unintentional sideways slip.

And as it happens, that motion IS mapped to a function in k9mail -- SELECT.

[jszwedko]

The gmail app handles the occasional accidental swipes via an "undo". Both desires could be satisfied by making it an optional feature.

[qrovira]

Having this configurable could be a good option

[qrovira]

@lbdroid would something like this be fairly acceptable in terms of functionality? Being opt-in, it should not disrupt the current UX too much.

As a side note, i just quickly put this together, and I'm by no means an android developer myself, so it would need a thorough review before i consider making a pull request out of that.

@jszwedko thoughts?

[qrovira]

To just add some concerns from my side:

• Current code does not do select/deselect as it states around, it actually does toggle-select regardless of the swipe direction. Git history did not show anything on a quick scan.
• There's no feedback for the actions taken, unlike some other apps like gmail, whcih means it's hard to be sure if you deleted or archived emails. Better feedback (eg transitions or bubble) could be helpful, but I feel that's a completely separate feature anyway.
• Other actions could be useful (flagging? starring? mark as spam?)
• I'm not completely happy with the naming/namespacing of some of the bits in my commit :)

[qrovira]

Also relevant: #2807

[mordae]

This is implemented by AquaMail by displaying an icon of the action that will happen upon completing the swipe and an undo popup. It is extremely comfortable when you go for the inbox-0 strategy of archiving processed mail.

Do you accept bounties?

[sylvainsab]

#Same here. It is on the default app on my Sony Xperia. I also was perplexed by the possibility of accidentally deleting emails at first but it turns out it doesn't happen and I use the function a lot.
Here is how it is configured in my app :

• Swipe left : sort/archive
• Swipe right : delete
• Long touch : select

It is really handy that way.

[lindoman]

I would really like this feature. I used to use Aquamail also, and not only is it configurable in Aquamail, but also there were different actions depending on how far you swiped and in which direction... up to three per direction I seem to remember, with very good visual and even haptic feedback (if you wanted) so you could tell what action you were about to take.

[acitonic]

It would be great if this feature will be added, maybe as option in th settings. I'm working a lot with folders, so it'll be great if I could just swipe for sort or deleting.
So 2 configurable swipe actions in the mail list would be perfect.

This is an issue which is requested so often and for over 5 years. I don't really understand why it's still not implemented? Very sadly.....

[PrismaComputer]

This feature is already added and this Issue should be closed.