Re: [Evolution-hackers] 'vertical' view?

[Daniel Gryniewicz <dang fprintf net>]

Well, that's fine for limited horizontal space, but I have a 1600x1050
screen, so I have horizontal realestate to spare.  I'd like to conserve
as much vertical as I can.

Daniel

On Mon, 2004-08-16 at 23:10 +0200, Ron Smits wrote:
> Maybe a stupid idea, but why not shorten the tree list? something like
> this:
> 
> +--------+--------------------+
> |treepane+ message list       |
> |        +                    |
> +-----------------------------+
> | preview pane                +
> +                             +
> +-----------------------------+
> 
> Ron
> 
> On Thu, 2004-08-12 at 09:53 +0200, gabor wrote:
> > On Thu, 2004-08-12 at 13:02 +0800, Not Zed wrote:
> > > 
> > > This inspired me to try a trivial implementation.  It doesn't work
> > > very well for my screen resolution.
> > 
> > 
> > thanks a lot...
> > 
> > it works very nicely for me...
> > 
> > screenshot from my computer:
> > 
> > http://z10n.net/evo-patched.png
> > 
> > some comments:
> > 1. hiding the sidebar is useful, but maybe something like this would be
> > even better.
> > -the sidebar would work more like a menu...
> > -it would be hidden, but there would be a select-folder button on the
> > toolbar
> > -if i click select-folder, a list of folders is shown, where i select
> > one, and evolution switches to it. and the folder-list vanishes. this
> > could be very effective like: i click on select-folder, keep holding the
> > left-mouse-button, select the folder i want, and release the left-mouse-
> > button
> > 
> > 2. something that eats up a lot of screen space: the "From" field,
> > which shows the sender's name AND his email address. imho it should be
> > OR  :)
> > -for me for example, the ideal behaviour would be:
> > 	-if there's a name for the sender, show me only the name
> > 	-if there's not name there, show the email address
> > 	-(maybe we could complicate this with: if there's no name there, but
> > the email address is in the contacts, then get the name from there)
> > -so to put simple,  if there's a name, i don't want to see the email
> > address. i don't care about it. if i need the email address, i can
> > select the mail, and see the full name+email-address thing.
> > 
> > 3. is there any chance that this vertical-view thing could be added to
> > evolution? (please,please, pretty please ;)))
> > 
> > thanks,
> > gabor
> > 
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