Re: [Evolution-hackers] Mail VPaned vs. HPaned

[Not Zed <notzed ximian com>]

On Sat, 2004-08-21 at 01:50 -0500, Hans Petter Jansson wrote:
> Ok, so I'd seriously like to see this feature in future evolution
> releases; the ability to switch the mail component to use an HPaned to
> split the mail list/preview space. It will make life better.
>
> Here's a screenshot of how my evo looks now:
>
> http://hp.cl.no/dist/evolution-mail-hpaned.png
>
> Pros:
>
> - There is more vertical space to view both the current mail and the 
>   folder. I rarely have to scroll mails now.
>
> Cons:
>
> - I had to chop off the date column to get it to fit. But it doesn't 
>   really bother me, since when I'm interested in that piece of 
>   information, I just want it for a single mail, and the mail headers
>   on the right provide that.
>
> - Though this might not really be necessary, i took away the
>   "important" and "status" fields, because I seldom use them, and 
>   the "important" flag can be toggled from the right-click menu. It also
>   makes the whole row go red, so no need for the icon, really. As for
>   the "status" icon, I am fortunate to remember which mails I've
>   replied to (and with mailing lists you get feedback anyway).

It really needs a different vertical list layout or widget.  Even normally etable seems to add more space than it needs to.

> By the way, this reminds me of another feature I'd like to see in the
> mail view: Thread subject compression. This would make it not show the
> subject for mails in a thread where the parent and the child have the
> same subject string (an added "Re: " does not count as a modification).
> It'd make the list a *lot* less busy and make it easier to differentiate
> the threads at a glance.

i dont understand this last bit.  how would it make any difference, and what are you going to show instead, a blank line?  how would that make reading threads easier?

> What do you think?