Hi Matthew I think it is a pretty good idea :-). The two main reason are
- Width is controlled by the number of tabs in Mail Preferences - Height is controlled by the General tab in Mail Preferences On Wed, 2006-12-06 at 14:12 -0500, Matthew Barnes wrote: > I'm running Evolution 2.9.3 with a 1024x768 screen resolution and > Evolution's Preferences dialog barely fits on my screen. I had an idea > on how we might shrink this down a bit by reorganizing some tabs. I'm > not proposing a complete overhaul of the preferences at this time, just > some minor changes that I think can be accomplished before Evolution > 2.10 ships. > > The General tab of the Mail Preferences section currently defines the > size of the Preferences dialog, so the goal is to reduce the contents of > this tab. > > My suggestions are: > > 1) There is both a "Calendar and Tasks" section and a "Mail Preferences" > section with a "Calendar and Tasks" tab. Eliminate the tab in the > "Mail Preferences" section as follows: > > a) Move the "Delete message after acting" option to the General > tab in the "Calendar and Tasks" section. > b) Move the conflicts options to a new "Conflicts" tab in the > "Calendar and Tasks" section. > I think if you add "Conflicts" tab to calendar prefs, the number of tabs would increase and it may start controlling the width. For that we can also remove the "Free/Busy" tab in "Calendar and Tasks" and add merge it with calendar publishing by renaming the tab as "Publishing". Both these tab mean free/busy and calendar publishing. > 2) Add a new section called "Contacts" and make the "Autocompletion" > section a tab within the "Contacts" section. > This is pretty cool. > 3) Move the "Automatic Contacts" tab in the "Mail Preferences" section > to the new "Contacts" section. Maybe rename the tab to "General"? > > 4) With the number of tabs in the "Mail Preferences" section now > diminished, split the mail notification options in the "General" tab > to a new "Notification" tab. Cool. > > VoilĂ , shrinkage! > > Comments? Other ideas? Thanks for the initiative :). -Srini. > > Matthew Barnes > > _______________________________________________ > Evolution-hackers mailing list > Evolution-hackers@gnome.org > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/evolution-hackers _______________________________________________ Evolution-hackers mailing list Evolution-hackers@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/evolution-hackers