1 How "views" work in Citadel
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4 (Note: this stuff isn't finished yet; we're still building the framework.)
7 There's no need to be rigid and stupid about how different rooms are presented
8 in a Citadel client. And we don't enforce things either. But there's a need
9 to make things look the way the user wants to see them. For example, we might
10 always choose to see a room full of private mail as a summary (one line per
11 message) rather than always dumping out the entire contents like we do on a
12 typical BBS room. An address book room might look better as a tabbed view
13 or something, rather than as a bunch of messages with vCards attached to them.
15 This is why we define "views" for a room. It gives the client software a
16 hint as to how to display the contents of a room. This is kept on a per-user
17 basis by storing it in the 'visit' record for a particular room/user
18 combination. It is visit.v_view and is an integer. Naturally, there also
19 needs to be a default, for users who have never visited the room before. This
20 is in the room record as quickroom.QRdefaultview (and is also an integer).
22 The values currently defined are:
24 #define VIEW_BBS 0 /* Traditional Citadel BBS view */
25 #define VIEW_MAILBOX 1 /* Mailbox summary */
26 #define VIEW_ADDRESSBOOK 2 /* Address book view */