[MlMt] Widescreen Layout - A la Postbox

[Kai Großjohann]

For me, the biggest advantage is that there is more room for the 
subject.  At the same time, you can save space.

You begin with each email taking up two lines,

* the first line could be the subject header, and it spans the width of 
the table,
* the second line is split into multiple columns and it has various 
header fields.

Now if multiple emails belong to the same thread, and have the same 
subject (modulo "Re:" and the like), then the subject line could be 
hidden for all entries except the first.

Theoretically I don't see why this would be any less customizable than 
the plain view.  I could even imagine that one could have an arbitrary 
number of lines per message, and one could have an arbitrary number of 
columns per line, with span.

Hm.  Maybe like the web page layout option using a grid?  You define a 
grid, say 12 columns, then for each row you define the columns with 
their spans.

Kai


On 23 Apr 2015, at 3:44, Thomas Roberts wrote:

> Yeah, I’ve only ever seen this feature implemented as a very 
> low-information view. I think Microsoft was the first to do this with 
> Outlook (2003 or 2007) and it’s still not very customizable. 
> Thunderbird also implemented a vertical view, and allowed you to pack 
> all of your columns into it, but it was unusable if you added anything 
> beyond sender, date, subject. I’d love to see this in MailMate, but 
> I would not have any expectations that I could cram all of my existing 
> columns in there. I think by design it has to be very basic like 
> Postbox, Mail.app, or Outlook.
>
>
> On 22 Apr 2015, at 15:02, Benny Kjær Nielsen wrote:
>
>> On 22 Apr 2015, at 21:52, Chris Jones wrote:
>>
>> [multiline message outline view]
>>
>>> Hi Benny, is this something that could be tweaked with ease?
>>
>> No. Technically, it is a bit more likely to be implemented after 
>> MailMate required 10.7+, because of how the Apple outline view works 
>> internally. But it's still a major change to go from multiple columns 
>> to a single column -- at least if expecting the same functionality as 
>> is available with multiple columns. (I just checked “Apple Mail” 
>> and I can see that only “Size” is optional in the narrow message 
>> list -- everything else is fixed.)
>>
>> -- 
>> Benny
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