304194 - Support better index layout for "vertical" layout, like Outlook 2003

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 213945

(Thunderbird :: Mail Window Front End, enhancement)

Description

[Mark]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.10) Gecko/20050716 Firefox/1.0.6
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.10) Gecko/20050716 Firefox/1.0.6

When using the vertical layout in Thunderbird, the message index (the pane that
displays all the subject lines) is visually cramped and the information is
typically prematurely truncated.

Outlook 2003 has a good solution to this; each entry in the message index is two
lines high. The sender and date are written on the top line, and the subject is
written below in a gray font. It looks very slick and is a lot more functional
than Thunderbird's claustrophobic vertical index. I'd very much like to see this
layout in Thunderbird.

Reproducible: Always

Comment 1

[Mark]

Attachment: Screenshot of the Outlook 2003 two-line index

Added a screenshot attachment that shows the Outlook 2003 two-line index.

Comment 2

[Scott MacGregor]

I'm pretty sure we've got bugs on this. Would require extensive tree widget
changes to support a multi line row but would be great if someone did that.

Comment 3

[Adam Guthrie]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 213945 ***

Comment 4

[[:Aureliano Buendía]]

Cleanup *dupeme* whiteboard flag from bugs that are marked as Resolved Duplicate!