335310 - Suggest Multi-line Message List display (great in vertical view)

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 213945

(Thunderbird :: Mail Window Front End, enhancement)

Description

[Jon Watte]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.0.2) Gecko/20060308 Firefox/1.5.0.2
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.0.2) Gecko/20060308 Firefox/1.5.0.2

I like having my folders on the left, followed by the message list view, followed by the message preview pane (where I actually read all mail). However, the message list isn't very useful in this layout, because there's not enough space to get subject, sender, date, and spam status all into a single line. Instead, I suggest allowing the message list presentation format for each message to be taller (multi-line); possibly as a separate option, or possibly tied to being in Vertical View layout mode.


Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Switch to Vertical View

Actual Results:  
1. Notice that message list is very hard to read


Expected Results:  
1. Message list is still useful, even on screens as "narrow" as 1280 across.

Comment 1

[Mike Cowperthwaite]

See also bug 307070

Comment 2

[Mike Cowperthwaite]

*** Bug 339060 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 3

[deprasi-foren]

For me this feature is essential, it is the only reason why I am staying with Outlook until now.

Comment 4

[KAC]

I would so love to see this implemented.

Comment 5

[Chris J]

Looks like a dup of bug 213945

Comment 7

[Martin]

Attachment: Lotus Notes screenshot with stacked message list

Comment 8

[Martin]

It might be possible to make an extension in TB2 for this.

From
http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/thunderbird/2.0.0.0/releasenotes/

"Improved Support For Extensions: Extensions can now add custom columns to the message list pane in addition to storing custom message data in the mail database."

Don't get me wrong, I would so much like to have this feature in Thunderbird myself =)

Comment 9

[Johannes Rohr]

(In reply to comment #8)
> It might be possible to make an extension in TB2 for this.
> 
> From
> http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/thunderbird/2.0.0.0/releasenotes/
> 
> "Improved Support For Extensions: Extensions can now add custom columns to the
> message list pane in addition to storing custom message data in the mail
> database."

I fail to see, how adding even more columns to the message page should improve the situation. 

Comment 10

[David :Bienvenu]

it doesn't - the custom columns stuff also allows an extension to change the display of a current column as well, but it doesn't allow you to make the tree widget allow multi-row text, or multiple rows per item, which is the real issue.