264152 - Add "Maximize Message Pane" / "Hide Message List"

Status: NEW

(Thunderbird :: Mail Window Front End, enhancement)

Description

[Thomas Stache]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20041010 Firefox/0.10
Build Identifier: 

In analogy to the "View->Layout->Message Pane" command I'd like to have a
"Maximize Message Pane" command with hotkey (maybe SHIFT-F8) to temporarily hide
the message list/thread pane. That'll vastly improve the usability of the
"Vertical View" when viewing (fixed width) HTML newsletters.

I've seen this in the excellent feed reader FeedDemon.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:

Comment 1

[Martin Poirier]

Could not find any dupe, confirming.

Comment 2

[Lee_Dailey]

howdy y'all,

[1] my tb info ...
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.8.0.2) Gecko/20060308 Thunderbird/1.5.0.2 - Build ID: 2006030803

[2] adding this comment to avert the "expiration" zombie AND to list a few approximations via extensions. this would be right handy for me. i have been using this ...
- Grippies 1.0.1
https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/2242/

... for a while now, but it can't collapse the threadpane, only the folderpane and msgpane. this ...
- Maximize Message Pane 0.6.25
https://addons.mozilla.org/thunderbird/1392/

... does pretty much what this bug/rfe seems to be about. screenshots here ...
http://www.geocities.jp/wknxc134/moz_ext/

take care,
lee

Comment 3

[Thomas Stache]

Attachment: Behaviour of my Maximize Preview extension

Just the js-part of my extension, as a proof of concept. Could be turned into a patch.

Comment 4

[Thomas Stache]

Thanks for the heads up, I didn't know about "Maximize Message Pane". But I coded a "Maximize Preview" extension for me and my friends. Nothing fancy, just messing with the 

messengerBox.collapsed

property. See the attachment how I did it. Needed to consider the various layout options and the state of the F8 Show/Hide Preview feature.

Comment 5

[Jim Porter (:squib)]

Isn't this essentially fixed by way of message tabs now?