[MlMt] Custom widescreen view with thread arcs

Mateusz Parzonka parzonka at gmail.com
Tue Feb 5 13:29:00 UTC 2013



On 5 Feb 2013, at 9:43, Benny Kjær Nielsen wrote:

> On 5 Feb 2013, at 0:51, Mateusz Parzonka wrote:
>
>>> I've made a custom MailMate layout for Mailboxes view. It modifies 
>>> the installed widescreen layout by adding a vertical thread arcs 
>>> view at the right. It has become my standard view which I use on a 
>>> daily basis.
>>>
>>> If anyone would like to try it out: I've created a gist with 
>>> installation instructions: https://gist.github.com/4707302
>>
>> I've updated the layout description after installing build 3255. The 
>> initial version of the layout did not work as expected as I 
>> reinstalled it in MailMates resources. I have now tried it with fresh 
>> builds 3239 and 3255 where it works. Sorry, if anyone had attempted a 
>> fruitless effort in the meantime.
>
> Great to see that someone is not afraid of playing around with this 
> (in spite of my general warnings that I'll change anything anytime :-) 
> ). But you should change the install instructions to this path:
>
> 	~/Library/Application 
> Support/MailMate/Resources/Layouts/Mailboxes/widescreen_with_thread_arcs.plist
>
> Then it won't be overwritten when you update MailMate. Also note that 
> I changed the filename to make it a separate Widescreen mode -- 
> otherwise I think MailMate is going to be confused (I might be wrong).

I performed the proposed changes, it is much cleaner now! I've updated 
the gist so the view has now a proper title in the menu.

-- 
Mateusz



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