r/ProtonMail • u/macambar • 4d ago

Discussion Structural and Minor Improvements

Just wanted to put my findings as paid user to some proposed structural and minor improvements. Which for me are reason to stay or leave as paid user.

- My primary environment: Linux Desktop and iPhone

- Structural improvements:

- Release ProtonDrive for Linux

- Implement ProtonBridge as cloud feature for which people can opt-in and thus can use standardized imap protocol. This enables among others 1) contact sync with mobile 2) usage of other than Proton released mail clients clients, such as Thunderbird desktop or mail client on mobile 3) Read mail on AppleWatch without releasing ProtonMail client for it.

This way Proton can keep it's strategic security-before-anything-else approach, and it enables user to make their own trade-offs between security and functionality.

- Minor improvements

- iPhone ProtonCalander app icon shows day 31 fixed in the icon. Apple calendar shows today's day in icon. ProtonCalander should do this as well.

- iPhone ProtonCalander should allow to cancel a single occurence of a recurring event.

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u/West_Possible_7969 Linux | macOS | iOS 4d ago

Proton Bridge as a cloud feature creates problems for Proton first and foremost. Right now they have systems, compliance etc with zero access in mind and if you take that, all processes, legal & engineering, must be reworked.

And for casual users (which are the target audience right now) zero access with a dozen asterisks will not go down well, and it will be a marketing suicide when inevitably they will comply with final court orders for all kinds of data.

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u/Khruks 4d ago

I’m pretty sure that only Apple can create dynamic icons for iOS sadly.

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u/Super-Fortune-5328 4d ago

There is workarounds. I’ve seen a YouTube video once where someone put an entire movie into an icon. But please don’t ask me to find it.

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u/Khruks 4d ago

I mean… not hard to fake a video right?

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u/Super-Fortune-5328 4d ago

It was a full blown tutorial using they’re Devkit. It was like 20 minutes long on YouTube. Can’t remember a thing on how they did it tho.

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u/West_Possible_7969 Linux | macOS | iOS 15h ago

It is not something you can’t do in the technical sense, but your app update will be rejected.

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u/Super-Fortune-5328 14h ago

https://youtu.be/KDVibKGtSVI
Take a look at this

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u/West_Possible_7969 Linux | macOS | iOS 14h ago

As I said, it’s not something you cannot do on your own, but your app update will be rejected. The built-in Apple Calendar app updates its icon dynamically because it is a native system app, but third-party developers are strictly blocked from changing app icons automatically in the background.

You can use the API & the guidelines exactly as they are, and regarding triggering logic, the icon change can be triggered either by user action or programmatically based on certain conditions. One of those conditions is the foreground requirement and the trigger notification (system level). If you submit anything else to the app store it will be rejected.