Re: [Evolution] gui to big, howto get rid off bars.

[Robert Lindgren <robert orcafat com>]

On Sun, 03 Aug 2003 00:52:55 +0200
guenther <guenther rudersport de> wrote:

> > How do I get rid of the bar below the icon tool-bar (INBOX 1new,1
> > selected 400 total). That bar takes up 37 pixels, and is useless, except
> > the total message count (which I would prefer to have on the right hand
> > side of the folder in the folder list).
> >
> > How do I get the icon tool bar to take less space than 35 pixels it
> > takes?
> >
> > Is it possible to hide the search bar?
> >
> > All these bars are good things, but only when you need then. No point in
> > displaying a search bar if you search for messages once or twice a
> > month. I rather would like to use the space to display a couple more
> > lines of an email, which I think is better since it's a email client,
> > not a bar-client.
> >
> > By the way I just notices that it looks hard to get rid of the formating
> > bar in the compose window also? Is this really true.....
>
>
> I'm afraid, AFAIK you cannot get rid of (or scale down) any of those.
>
>
> You are correct, that Evolution is a mail client. But especially the
> search bar really is useful, not to say essential to me on a daily
> basis, once I got used to it.
>
> The gray bar with the current folder and the mail counts seems to be
> dropped in the mock-ups for the 2.0 UI.
>
> ...guenther

Of cause the search is useful, but when I would like to search I could use alt-s a. is it possible to 
exchange the icons with smaller ones? to maybe get rid of some space if the widgets themselves aren't 
hardcoded to take out that much space? Somebody gotta know.