[MlMt] Correspondence layout, shifted

[Paula Coelho]

thx for sharing Luca. i'm already using it.
let me know if you find out about the attachments panel!

cheers,
paula


On 12 Aug 2014, at 14:27, Luca Allodi wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Today I spent some time flipping around my favourite MailMate layout, 
> Correspondence.
>
> I am not sure anybody would really be interested in this 
> re-organisation but I thought to share just in case.
>
> So, you might be interested in this if you have similar thoughts as 
> mine:
>
> - I like using MM through my keyboard shortcuts (e.g. to navigate 
> mailboxes).
> - I like saving up space on the monitor
> - I also like having the email I am interested right in front of me, 
> rather than next to one of the screen edges (right edge for the 
> Widescreen layout, or bottom for the others).
>
> Because of this I don't need:
>
> - the full list of mailboxes to be always available for me to 
> mouse-click
> - all the horizontal space dedicated to the mail listing
> - the actual mail body shifted to the bottom right because of all the 
> space occupied by the Mailboxes vertical bar and by the Correspondence 
> bit.
>
> Here's how I edited Correspondence (link on imgur.com):
>
> ![Example of Correspondence Shifted 
> (imgur)](http://i.imgur.com/p8y1lL2.png)
>
> One idea was also to include an additional panel showing only the 
> attachments in the mail, for rapid access (they are always listed at 
> the very bottom of the mail body and sometimes that's a bit annoying 
> when I am looking through emails to find a particular attachment).
>
> The panel could be:
>
> - horizontal: for the classic "quick look"-"save" interface
> - vertical: for a full preview (but this would require plugins e.g. 
> for PDFs etc).
>
> Anyway I have no idea how to query MM to return an email attachment. 
> Benny, would something like
>
> 	attachments = $mainOutline.attachments
>
> work? I did not try. If there's a way to implement this I would 
> happily give it a shot.
>
> Anyway, I attach the layout, which I named "Correspondence Shifted" 
> because as a poet I fall quite short. The attachment is a zip file 
> with the directory structure and the layout to place in
>
> 	~/Library/Application Support/MailMate/Resources/
>
> If you have other custom layouts already defined, make sure to merge 
> the dirs rather than substituting yours with mine. If you like 
> Correspondence Shifted but are uncomfortable with some changes ask and 
> I'll deliver (if I know how to do it :-)) or you are welcome to modify 
> it yourself and share it back.
>
> Cheers,
>
>
>
> --
> Luca Allodi
> DISI, Università degli Studi di Trento, Italy
> http://disi.unitn.it/~allodi/ - https://securitylab.disi.unitn.it/
> Visiting Durham University. Durham, UK.
> (@secscientist)
> [Layouts.zip]
> _______________________________________________
> mailmate mailing list
> mailmate at lists.freron.com
> http://lists.freron.com/listinfo/mailmate
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://lists.freron.com/pipermail/mailmate/attachments/20140812/be62bf80/attachment.html>