Hello Ali,
On Tuesday, October 26, 1999 Ali Martin wrote:
> When viewing messages by thread, is it really necessary to have the
> subject for every message within a thread displayed? It makes the
> listing appear very cluttered when you expand the threads and the
> repeated listing of the message subject takes up a lot of screen real
> estate, pushing the listing out of the boundaries of the message list
> pane.
> Agent displays the subject of just the first message in the thread
> and lists the authors name only after that and actually in the
> subject field.
I simply hate, abhor, loathe, detest this! That's mainly why I never
forced myself to use it.
> Displaying an envelope for every message, opened or closed is again
> a cluttered interface. Using an envelope for new mail and then a
> smaller indicator than an open envelope, which is actually thicker
> than a line of text for reply and read indicators would look better
> and again less cluttered.
I'm not sure what you are writing about, but I like it as it is now. I
don't care that open envelopes are not fully displayed -- I can live
without this small end of envelope that is not displayed.
> I've been wondering why TB's interface is not yet quite spectacular,
> yet it has the necessary ingredients. I guess it has to do with how
> the ingredients are used. :))
Yeah, there are many things in TB's interface that could be better,
but IMHO not the ones you write about.
Best regards,
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