Answering myself as no-one else seems to have bumped into this problem.
As described below, clicking and dragging the dimpled horizontal bar
does nothing - until you drag far enough. I don't know what "far enough"
really means. In my case it was about 300px. Until the click-and-drag
gets beyond the magical limit there is no visual feedback, and in fact,
nothing happens. The window pane is not modified in any way. The
application provides no support for doing the right thing. At the point
that the magic limit is passed the message view window springs into
view.
What I am accustomed to is progressive action. If I do the something on
my side, the computer program does the something on its side, and it
does this progressively. If I touch the "e" key once I see "e" printed
on the screen. If I hold the "e" key down, "e" is printed on the screen
until I release it.
Having to perform the right action in a highly specific way, instead of
a highly general way, makes it extremely difficult to use the software
comfortably. In this case, clicking and dragging should be sufficient to
obtain a successful result. In fact, success can only be achieved by
clicking and dragging until an unspecified (but fairly large) minimum
distance has been travelled by the mouse. This leaves a lot of potential
for failure.
The fact that it's very easy to get into this situation and very hard to
get out of this situation really sucks.
thanks to everyone at home who is reading along.
Malcolm
On 29 May 2025, at 16:16, [email protected] wrote:
I read my mail in three pane view: a thin left hand column contains
mailboxes. The rest of the window is split by a horizontal divider,
with message lists at the top and the message pane at the bottom.
Recently I've moved the divider between the message lists and the
message pane. The mailbox column and the message list are visible but
the message pane is not. I can see the divider at the bottom of the
window. It displays the characteristic dimple and when I hover my
mouse over it, the icon changes to a horizontal bar with an arrow
pointing up. Clicking and dragging does nothing. I'm not able to move
the divider to reveal the message pane.
This is frustrating me. How do I reset the window to sensible
defaults?
Malcolm
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