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

[Hans Petter Jansson <hpj ximian com>]

On Sat, 2004-08-21 at 18:36 +0800, Not Zed wrote:
> On Sat, 2004-08-21 at 01:50 -0500, Hans Petter Jansson wrote: 

> > 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?

http://hp.cl.no/dist/evolution-mail-sparse-subjects.png

I had to add markers to reflect thread levels - dunno how hard that is
to do with the current table widget. Probably not that hard.

Anyway, think this makes the list of subjects a lot more scannable - you
can tell at a glance which messages are about the same thing, e.g. when
the subject changes inside a thread. The user gets away with less
pattern matching.

-- 
Hans Petter