Alec Flett wrote:
I completely agree that narrow columns are easy to read, but I get a lot of HTML-based e-mail that is often simply too wide for a three-column layout... and in fact the mere presence of a horizontal scroll bar is annoying to me. Further, I use quicksearch in Thunderbird quite a bit, and so I generally don't have much of a need to see more than 5-10 messages at a time. In fact, when I try the three column layout, showing 30+ message titles at a time is actually too much information for me.
I'm getting better about processing my daily folders quickly and so they're mostly pretty empty, but for some reason I still greatly prefer the 3-column layout. (And to think that I only started using it maybe a year ago.)
Besides, shouldn't HTML email be even easier to fit this way without having to scroll horizontally? All the mail app has to do is reflow a P section differently, unlike with plain text, where there is always some amount of guessing where linebreaks are used to separate paragraphs and where simply to break a long line. (Outlook even gives you a button in each message to switch between viewing original linebreaks and the re-flowed text, for the odd time where it heuristics are wrong. :-)
This is not to say that my way is better, but rather that I have some pretty specific, valid reasons for preferring this format over chandler's existing layout. (This crosses into the "preference" realm, ironically, and thunderbird does get by with allowing the user to change this, without going to a preferences window)
Really? How do you rearrange the panes without going through Preferences? Davor _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ Open Source Applications Foundation "Design" mailing list http://lists.osafoundation.org/mailman/listinfo/design
