Re: Main window design proposal

[Paul Lewis <paul lewis Karachi freeuk com>]

Try switching on the 'show mailbox tabs' under the view menu in 1.0
then select in turn each mail box you have so that they are all allocated
a tab. Then switch off  mail box tree, view-show mail box tree. Finally
preferences startup and check 'remember open mailboxes between 
sessions'.

This should have a similar effect to that you are looking for.


On Wed, 15 Nov 2000 20:40:16 hitched97@mailops.com wrote:
> At 11:10 AM 11/15/00, Hongli Lai wrote:
> >I think the current main window design is not good enough.
> >Currently it looks like this:
> >
> >+----------------------------+
> >|       | Thread             |
> >| Mail  | list               |
> >| boxes |                    |
> >|       +--------------------+
> >|       |                    |
> >|       | Message body       |
> >|       |                    |
> >|       |                    |
> >+-------+--------------------+
> >
> >This has a disadvantage: there's less space for the
> >message body viewer widget.
> >Yes, I know the mailbox list can be hidden, but a lot of people
> >switch mailboxes very often.
> >
> >So I'm proposing a new design that looks like this:
> >+----------------------------+
> >|       |                    |
> >| Mail  |   Thread list      |
> >| boxes |                    |
> >|-------+--------------------+
> >|                            |
> >|        Message body        |
> >|                            |
> >|                            |
> >+----------------------------+
> >
> >Saves a lot of space, doesn't it?
> >Please consider this.
> >Or at least make it configureable.
> 
> Again, I already have a patch for this.  Doesn't quite work right though.
> When I switch to the second layout (in the Preferences panel), and I have
> a mailbox open, the "Mailboxes" subpanel has it's width changed to the
> exact
> same *height* as the "Thread list" subpanel.  Would anyone be willing to
> take a look at my code, and see if it's a problem with my stuff, or gtk+?
> Note - The first layout above is used my default, if you don't go into
> Prefs and change it, you'll never know the second layout exists.
> That should kepp Marcel and others with lots of mailboxes happy.  8-]
> 
> --
> steve
> 
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