Mail

Retrieve favicon and display it in the conversation

Bug #1553682 reported by swizzle
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Bug Description

Instead of displaying only text in the message list, maybe the favicon of a website could also be displayed e.g. Bountysource, Amazon, etc.
The email, or the message it had to be analyzed to get an url to fetch the favicon from it.
This would be very clear when you've a lot emails to quickly find for example an amazon email.
I know you can just search for it, but this also gives a prettier design with more icons.

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Danielle Foré (danrabbit) wrote :

Do you mean you'd like to see avatars in the conversation list (the middle pane) and not just the conversation viewer (right pane)?

Changed in pantheon-mail:
status: New → Incomplete
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swizzle (el-ferreira-deactivatedaccount) wrote :

This would be another great feature, but here i'm not talking about avatars, i'm talking about favicons. The icons of a website that you see in a tab of webbrowser for example launchpad, google, amazon, etc. I don't know if is possible to fetch the favicon of website (which is written in the email conversation) and display it in the middle pane.

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swizzle (el-ferreira-deactivatedaccount) wrote :

Here you've a an example AirMail does this:
http://a4.mzstatic.com/us/r30/Purple49/v4/8f/71/8b/8f718b43-130f-7d12-2598-6bcaad3a03cb/screen322x572.jpeg
With a quick look at the favicons you can see from where the emails are from.

swizzle (el-ferreira-deactivatedaccount)
Changed in pantheon-mail:
status: Incomplete → New
Danielle Foré (danrabbit)
Changed in pantheon-mail:
importance: Undecided → Wishlist
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Zisu Andrei (matzipan) wrote :

I don't know how well will this work since we have round boxes for avatars and most icons will have different expectations in this regard.

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