Re: PATCH: Misc GUI fixes

[Carlos Morgado <chbm chbm nu>]

Em Dom, 15 Jul 2001 02:11:01 M . Thielker escreveu:
> On 2001.07.15 03:05 Carlos Morgado wrote:
> > 
> > 
> > that's the main idea. if you don't like what it does, don't use ;)
> > but please, keep the user preferences open ;)
> 
> The main idea is to have a tool that the user can use to make everything
> illegible and then be unable to fix it? I was just playing with it when I
> wrote a message - I ended up having to copy the text to a new message window
> because the header fields had become utterly inaccessble.

ok. that is a bug. the vertical alignment must be smart enough to do something
usefull with the available space. maybe making a attachments box less size
greedy

otherwise it's really neat when you're done with the headers and want to
maximize
writing space. 

> User preference can be safely applied through the options on the view menu,

not the same thing.

> and as a matter of fact, for each header field a toolbar button could be
> added to make things even easier. What is there now is dangerous to the

more buttons on the toolbar ? i think that would cluter it even more.

> novice user, every user will make that mistake once, if she's playful
> enough.
> I think that box needs to be gone and other means to achieve the desired
> results should be added if the view menu is not enough.
> 

making the table above the separator fixed size might be a way to go. 
the user can cover it with the edit box but the structure of the input
fields wouldn't be elastic and wouldn't get mangled

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