Re: [evolution-patches] Fix to resize the composer attachment bar

[Lee Revell <rlrevell joe-job com>]

On Fri, 2005-06-10 at 09:51 +0530, Srinivasa Ragavan wrote:
> On Fri, 2005-06-10 at 09:12 +0800, Not Zed wrote:
> > I have to agree.  It seems to be a completely sub-optimal solution to
> > the problem.
> > 
> > First, force the attachment bar to be open all the time, removing a
> > useful and common trick of having a collapser (a favourite on mac i
> > might add, which we seem to be religiously copying in gnome).  Then find
> > 'oh dear, this takes up too much space', so hack in a very crappy
> > solution of letting the user re-size the bar - which given how big and
> > silly the icons are will make it unusable unless it is full size anyway.
> 
> I feel that its better to have a soln of resize instead of show/hide
> mode. I guess most mail clients work that way. Mac, has a total
> different expander, which doesnt even has a scrolled window inside it.

Why does the attachment pane need to be separate from the message body,
rather than showing the attachments at the end of the message?  This
way, you could just backspace over the icon to delete the attachment,
and dnd into the message body to attach.

Lee