Atom 1.6 Released with Pending Pane Items, Async Git and Top and Bottom Bar API

Re:Atom 1.6 Released with Pending Pane Items, Async Git and ... by grinich on Thursday March 17, 2016 @07:53PM (#11308665)

We actually forked Atom and built an email app. It's worked surprisingly well!

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Re:Atom 1.6 Released with Pending Pane Items, Async Git and ... by seanp2k2 on Thursday March 17, 2016 @08:31PM (#11308907)

I'm not sure if you're serious or not. If you are serious, I'm sure I'm not the only one interested in why and how it turned out :)

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Re:Atom 1.6 Released with Pending Pane Items, Async Git and ... by ropiku on Thursday March 17, 2016 @08:34PM (#11308932)

He's serious, it's https://nylas.com/n1. See https://www.nylas.com/blog/splitting-the-atom (i'm not associated with them)

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Re:Atom 1.6 Released with Pending Pane Items, Async Git and ... by baby on Friday March 18, 2016 @03:09AM (#11310356)

I just... I just love it.

Can't seem to select all my mail to archive though. I have a bunch of unread mail and I would want to batch read them all.

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Re:Atom 1.6 Released with Pending Pane Items, Async Git and ... by grinich on Friday March 18, 2016 @03:12PM (#11314129)

Known bug unfortunately. It's related to how we paginate DB queries for the threadlist to make it super fast to scroll through. Hoping to fix it in the next few weeks!

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Re:Atom 1.6 Released with Pending Pane Items, Async Git and ... by baby on Friday March 18, 2016 @05:56PM (#11315502)

For what is worth, I had the same problem with Mail.app on OSX today. Impossible to see what my unread mails were (3 unread mails lost in my 6k mails) and impossible to select all with C-A and mark everything as read.

Also another thing I'm used to in that kind of app, is scroll further than the top limit to update the list.

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Re:Atom 1.6 Released with Pending Pane Items, Async Git and ... by grinich on Friday March 18, 2016 @06:49PM (#11315886)

Nylas N1 uses a realtime streaming delta API that we developed, so there's no need to ever manually "refresh" the app. The entire data layer is a giant flux store which populates the UI immediately. More on that API here: https://nylas.com/docs/platform#deltas

We've actually considered adding this and just making it a no-op-- a placebo feature to help users transition.

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Re:Atom 1.6 Released with Pending Pane Items, Async Git and ... by pavs on Friday March 18, 2016 @06:06AM (#11310811)

N1 is the first desktop app I have used for email in more than 10 years and I love it.

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Re:Atom 1.6 Released with Pending Pane Items, Async Git and ... by pyre on Thursday March 17, 2016 @10:03PM (#11309331)

Why a fork of Atom rather than a brand new Electron app?

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Re:Atom 1.6 Released with Pending Pane Items, Async Git and ... by grinich on Friday March 18, 2016 @03:25PM (#11314225)

We actually started building the app before Electron was released. They had just made the split to atom-shell and brightray.

Once Electron got it's footing, we migrated there. It's also easier for us to contribute upstream patches for things like touch events. (We launched swipe-to-archive a couple weeks ago.)

Atom is lagging behind Electron. It's still running on Electron v0.34.5 which was shipped in November of last year. They're trying to keep up, but the community of folks around Electron is growing fast.

If you're based in SF and interested in this, you should definitely check out the Bay Area Electron User Group: http://www.meetup.com/Bay-Area-Electron-User-Group/

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Re:Atom 1.6 Released with Pending Pane Items, Async Git and ... by LesZedCB on Friday March 18, 2016 @10:30AM (#11311989)

presumably because it already has the panel editing features included.

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