[MlMt] 5969?

[Pierre Igot]

Hi,

For what it’s worth, I too find it annoying that MailMate cannot properly remember my columns — in my case, my column widths for the combined Inbox in widescreen layout — and I do hope that Benny eventually finds a way to fix this, but in the meantime, I have a Keyboard Maestro macro command that readjusts my column widths after relaunch (i.e. when they are forgotten most of the time, although strangely, not 100% of the time).

The macro works for MY preferred column layout in the message list, within the widescreen layout for the mail viewer window. It makes the Source Account column narrower and the Subject column wider (which pushes all remaining columns farther to the right). That’s basically all that’s needed in my case. Obviously, depending on which columns you have and what you prefer, your steps and values will vary.

The macro also assumes that my width for the message pane on the right remains the same, which in my experience it does when quitting and relaunching MM. (The X values need to be adjusted if the width of the message pane on the right changes.) As a first step, the macro makes sure that the whole window has my preferred size (2885 x 1560), but I find that this too tends not to be forgotten by MM, so that step is not really necessary.

I’m sharing this just in case it’s useful (with adaptations) for anyone else… It’s better than nothing, like I said, in the meantime.

Keyboard Maestro is a great tool to “fix” software when the software maker is unwilling or unable to do so, for whatever reason. KM obviously cannot help for everything, but in this case it doesn’t do a bad job of automating something that is tedious and challenging to have to do right manually every time.

Pierre

MACRO:
https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/yt1ypwwtlewuulbsqzix2/macro.jpg?rlkey=jfd3zrljdag0xzn1eq6253eho&dl=0

Adjust Inbox Columns

Triggered by any of the following:

		The Status Menu is selected

Will execute the following actions:

		If All Conditions Met
		Front window title contains “Inbox”

		Execute the Following Actions:

		Resize Front Window to Pixels
		In MailMate
		To: 2885 horizontally, 1560 vertically.

		Move and Click and Drag
		At (1684,500) from the top left corner of the front window.
		And drag absolute (WINDOW(0,Right)-1305,815).

		Move and Click and Drag
		At (1362,85) from the top left corner of the front window.
		And drag relative (-150,0).
		
		Move and Click and Drag
		At (913,85) from the top left corner of the front window.
		And drag relative (300,0).
		

		Otherwise, Execute the Following Actions:

		Display Text Briefly
		Bring main window to front


		


On 15 Jul 2023, at 4:24, Alexandre Takacs wrote:

> One can wish… One of my major per peeve for the past 3 years or so :/
>
>> Somehow, I’d hoped that the massive rewrite would’ve solved the Forgetful Columns problem, but I guess not.

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