Re: [Evolution] Stacked headers in vertical never work for me

[Douglas Summers <ajgringo619 hotmail com>]

On Mon, 2020-12-14 at 23:18 +0000, Pete Biggs wrote:
> On Mon, 2020-12-14 at 13:56 -0600, Morgan via evolution-list wrote:
> > I have wanted to use Evolution for years, but I can never get the
> > stacked messages to work for me in vertical view. On Novell's
> > website, they say that when you switch to vertical preview, the
> > default message list will contain double line compressed headers.
> > However, this never works for me and I just get one line where I
> > can't read any columns.
> > I am running 3.36 on Ubuntu 20.04. Thank you for your help.
>
> That documentation is for Evolution 2.24 - that's about 10 years old
> and much has changed since.  Up-to-date documentation is in the Help
> menu - or use F1.
>
> As for your problem.  You say you only get a single line - what does
> that single line say? 
>
> I think the term "columns" is a bit misleading in vertical view -
> there
> are two lines for each message in the message list - the first line
> contains the "From:" header and date/time, the second line contains
> the
> "Subject:" header.  The top line of the message list doesn't contain
> any columns at all except for Status, Flagged and "Messages". In fact
> exactly as it is shown in the Novel documentation (perhaps somethings
> never change!).
>
> P.
If this feature has been removed, it's not reflected in the current
(v3.38.2) docs:

Vertical view

Evolution provides a vertical view in addition to the classical view.
In the vertical view, the message preview pane is located at the right
side of the message list when compared to the classical view where the
message preview pane is placed below the message list. Vertical view
enables you to use the extra width of wide screen monitors.

To switch to vertical view, click View ▸ Preview ▸ Vertical View.

In vertical view, the message list contains double lines of compressed
headers, which enables you to consume the extra width in the preview
column. The compressed columns have Sender Name and Email, Attachment
Icon, Date and Subject in the second line.

To switch back to classical view, click View ▸ Preview ▸ Classical
View.