1858578 - Make the cards view rows a bit smaller

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Thunderbird :: Folder and Message Lists, enhancement, P2)

Description

[Alessandro Castellani [:aleca]]

Make the UI a little bit tighter and digestible for cards view

Comment 1

[Alessandro Castellani [:aleca]]

Attachment: Bug 1858578 - Make the cards view density height a bit tigther. r=#thunderbird-front-end-reviewers

Comment 2

[Alessandro Castellani [:aleca]]

Too early to do this now as we're going through some substantial UI changes in the cards view.
We'll come back to it with a different approach.

Comment 3

[Elizabeth Mitchell]

Alex, I think we have enough content in that now is a good time to refine the sizing. Thank you!

Comment 4

[Elizabeth Mitchell]

Consider Group by Sort in the sizing.

Comment 6

[Elizabeth Mitchell]

Reassigning to myself for now due to our beta release timeline. If we need to refine this further, it can be further refined in a future bug.

Comment 7

[Richard Leger]

Attachment: .png

Alex, Elizabeth,

As indicated in the following bugs and as per attached, the Card View really need some love in term of sizing.

On my 14" screen laptop with TB 120.0b5 (64-bit) set with Density Compact, three messages take half of the screen height!

• The GroupBy Card shall really need to appear only on one line
• The Message Card shall really need to appear only on two lines (three only if I opt-in for it temporarily or permanently at user's choice)

If there is an issue with the design of the Card View feature then it needs to be fixed instead of end-users enduring the side effect of wrong by design.

For reference only:
Bug 1864393 Comment 0
Bug 1861758 Comment 6
Bug 1861853 Comment 5

Regards,

Comment 8

[Elizabeth Mitchell]

(In reply to Richard Leger from comment #7)

Created attachment 9363476 [details]
.png

Alex, Elizabeth,

As indicated in the following bugs and as per attached, the Card View really need some love in term of sizing.

On my 14" screen laptop with TB 120.0b5 (64-bit) set with Density Compact, three messages take half of the screen height!

• The GroupBy Card shall really need to appear only on one line
• The Message Card shall really need to appear only on two lines (three only if I opt-in for it temporarily or permanently at user's choice)

If there is an issue with the design of the Card View feature then it needs to be fixed instead of end-users enduring the side effect of wrong by design.

For reference only:
Bug 1864393 Comment 0
Bug 1861758 Comment 6
Bug 1861853 Comment 5

Regards,

Thanks for this feedback, Richard. There is a plan to make this more compact.

As stated before, Grouped by cards will be the same height as other cards.

If there is an issue with the design of the Card View feature then it needs to be fixed instead of end-users enduring the side effect of wrong by design

Some efforts to change existing code design decisions take a lot more effort and time. This is one of those. How items scroll is a significant change. We can make this look great for the time being with the limitations we currently have. We can look into addressing the structural changes needed in the future. I appreciate your patience and willingness to let us know how we can improve. Thank you!

• The Message Card shall really need to appear only on two lines (three only if I opt-in for it temporarily or permanently at user's choice)

Three lines is as designed. There is more information going to be added to the third line. An opt-in for two lines versus one is a feature that would take time to design (code design and visual design) and would take time to implement. 3 lines is as designed right now.

The current cards are much larger than we want them to be. You will see improvement in the next beta release. Thank you!

Comment 9

[Elizabeth Mitchell]

Attachment: Bug 1858578 - Adjust Cards View cards row height. r=sol

Comment 10

[Pulsebot]

Pushed by [e-mail]:
https://hg.mozilla.org/comm-central/rev/35561512d45f
Adjust Cards View cards row height. r=sol