On Thu, Aug 05 2021, Daniel Kahn Gillmor wrote: > Hi notmuch folks-- > > RFC 9078 is an experimental draft "Reaction: Indicating Summary Reaction > to a Message": > > https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc9078.html > > In short form, this lets you "thumbs up" an e-mail message without > sending a longer reply. > > Basically, it formalizes a way to respond to an e-mail with a single > emoji sequence [0] by sending a message using the following headers: > > - In-Reply-To: <some-message-id@example.com> > - Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 > - Content-Disposition: reaction > > > [0] https://www.unicode.org/reports/tr51/#def_emoji_sequence Note that > "emoji sequence" is *not* just "a series of emoji characters", but > rather it is a sequence of codepoints that is typically expected to > render as a single emoji, for example a raised hand with dark skin > tone is U+270B RAISED HAND followed by U+1F3FF EMOJI MODIFIER > FITZPATRICK TYPE-6 > > > Currently in Notmuch these responses would be rendered as simple, short > one-line text replies. > > Some questions for notmuch to consider: > > 0) Should a message that conforms to this standard be treated > differently by notmuch than any other message? If the answer is > "nope" then the rest of the questions don't make sense :P > > 1) does the database need any modification to store/report these things > as distinct responses? > > 2) should "notmuch new" treat the message differently upon ingestion? > > 3) should message threading information count the list of messages in > the thread differently depending on how many messages are > "response" messages? > > 4) How should a notmuch frontend decide when to clear the "unread" flag > from such a response message? > > 5) Should notmuch frontends facilitate creation of this kind of > response? > > 6) how should a frontend render the summaries of these responses? I'd wait for "standards track" ;D (or de-facto usage it that takes too long...) Tomi > > Interesting times, > > --dkg _______________________________________________ notmuch mailing list -- notmuch@notmuchmail.org To unsubscribe send an email to notmuch-leave@notmuchmail.org