367936 - when opening a new mailbox, folders view and pane are always initially displayed

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Penelope Graveyard :: Mail Window, enhancement, P3)

Description

[Tim Hubbard]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X; en-US; rv:1.8.0.7) Gecko/20060911 Camino/1.0.3
Build Identifier: thunderbird 3.01a 22/01/07; Penelope 0.1a12.xpi

When openning a mailbox for the first time, folders and message panes are always initially displayed.  In Mac Eudora (6.2.4), folders and message panes are off by default.  For those using Eudora with very large numbers of mailbox windows open at any one time, persistent of this setting is very important.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. set mailbox to hide folder + message pane
2. open new mailbox and folder + messages panes are visible



Expected Results:  
Openning a new mailbox should create a small toc only pane - folders and message pane should be missing.

Size, and settings of mailboxes are persistent between sessions, however mailbox location is not persistent (possibley mentioned in another bug)

Comment 1

[Jeff Beckley]

One thing that will help is changing the setting to be in the 2-pane mode in the Penelope pref panel.  Then the folders pane will not show up in mailbox windows.

However, that doesn't help with the message pane, as it will still be visible.  There is a way to make the message pane hidden all of the time, but it involves creating a userChrome.css file: <http://kb.mozillazine.org/Window_layout_-_Thunderbird#Layout>.  Not as easy as just flipping a switch, though, so this is a pref we should add.

Comment 2

[Jeff Beckley]

(In reply to comment #1)
> so this is a pref we should add.

The tracker for that pref is bug 410327.

Comment 3

[Sylvestre Ledru [:Sylvestre]]

Penelope didn't see any activity in the vcs for the last 8 years, closing.