[MlMt] Custom widescreen view with thread arcs
Eric A. Meyer
eric at meyerweb.com
Tue Feb 5 18:17:34 UTC 2013
At 09:43 +0100 2/5/13, Benny Kjær Nielsen wrote:
>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).
It actually seems to handle it fine. You just get a new "Thread
Arcs" at position 6 in the View > Layout submenu, and switching to it
gets you the widescreen thread arcs view. I switched back and forth
between the widescreen and non-widescreen thread arc views with no
hiccups. So well done!
Where I ran into trouble was trying to edit the original
'threadArcs.plist' to use the horizontal variant. Everything I did
either suppressed the injection of 'messageView.plist', created a
really wonky and unstable layout, or outright failed to load. I
think the deep nesting of mailbox view .plists is a little too much
for my tiny mind.
--
Eric A. Meyer (eric at meyerweb.com) http://meyerweb.com/
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