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

[Not Zed <notzed ximian com>]

On Mon, 2004-10-04 at 22:57 -0400, Daniel Gryniewicz wrote:
> On Tue, 2004-10-05 at 10:17 +0800, Not Zed wrote:
> > 
> > No i said it was useless unless a better message-list is implemented.
> > 
> > > I think NotZed hinted that he'd approve a global option for this, and I
> > > sort of agreed to implement it. I'll get around to it eventually :)
>
> Hmmm... I use hpaned, and it works fine.  What do you think is required?
> My only desire here would be for the message list to keep the currently
> selected message centered on the pane, rather than 2-3 above the bottom.

Well it really needs a more flexible layout (i.e. copy outlook, again).  The layout already wastes scads of space horizontally, and if you have less room from a hpaned view it doesn't work.  Sure it works for wide-screen 1920x1440 displays, but although there are plenty of those, it might just confuse the coorporate desktop user where there aren't.

I think as it is now it just looks funny on a lot of displays.

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Michael Zucchi <notzed ximian com> "born to die, live to work, it's all downhill from here" Novell's Evolution and Free Software Developer