Re: [Evolution] Mail reader window useless

[Not Zed <notzed ximian com>]

WHOLE inbox?  How can you fit 10K messages on your screen at once?

Anyway, I work here at Ximian, and I agree with you, but there's nothing
i can do about it either.  Go figure.

On Fri, 2002-05-24 at 03:07, Zot O'Connor wrote:
> Is it me or does it seem that Ximian has something against using the
> separate pane window?
>
> I have checked around with Outlook, Netscape, and Pegausus (just for
> laughs)  users and many of them, more than I thought, use external
> panes.  They just do not like not being able to see their whole INBOX
> while reading a mail.  Interestingly enough a few thought the mailbox
> listing should be external to the main window, not the mail note.  This
> makes some sense, the mailbox listing then functions like a navigation
> index to the "main" program....
>
>
> On Tue, 2002-05-21 at 16:23, Lonnie Borntreger wrote:
> > On Tue, 2002-05-21 at 17:52, Jeffrey Stedfast wrote:
> > > On Tue, 2002-05-21 at 18:05, Lonnie Borntreger wrote: 
> > > [snip]
> > >     I'm no gnome developer (my specialty is KSH/SH, Makefiles, change
> > >     control and system administration), but could you point me to what files
> > >     (in other branches of Evolution) that I would find that "old" way of
> > >     viewing mails?  I would like to see if maybe I can understand the code
> > >     enough to make my own merge of that code for my personal use.
> > > Once you see the old code you'll fully understand why it was removed
> > > :-)
> >
> > One word: Eek!
> >
> > > anyways, you can do:
> > >
> > > cvs update -r 1.23 message-browser.c
> > > and
> > > cvs update -r 1.3 message-browser.h
> > >
> > > these files live in evolution/mail/
> >
> > Thanks.  Are there any plans to put back the removed functionality (in a
> > nicer neater fashion) sometime in the future, or is this the final
> > look?  I don't want to duplicate someone else's (more qualified) work.
> >
> >
> > -- 
> > TTFN,
> > Lonnie Borntreger
> >
> >
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