Open Bug 89941 Opened 24 years ago Updated 17 years ago

Additional layout for mail/news

Categories

(SeaMonkey :: MailNews: Message Display, enhancement)

Product:
SeaMonkey
Component:
MailNews: Message Display
Type:
enhancement
Priority:
Not set
Severity:
normal

Tracking

(Not tracked)

People

(Reporter: k-ryeng, Unassigned)

References

Details

When I read mail and news, it would be a advantage to be able to change the layout with the list of folders/newsgroups, the list of messages and the preview of the message. Especially when reading long messages, e.g. in programming newsgroups with a lot of source code, I would like to be able to show the two lists and the preview as three colums, instead of the horizontal tiling of the message list and the preview window. It is not very difficult for you to fix, but I (and other persons I know), would be happy if it became an option in Mozilla/Netscape.
severity: enhancement. You want something like this? _________________________________ | Folders | message | preview | | | list | | --------------------------------- Why does this make newsgroups with lots of source code more readable?
Severity: normal → enhancement
Comments from reporter: Yes, that would be fine! > > Why does this make newsgroups with lots of source code more readable? ------------------------ |Folders|M.list|Preview| | |------|----- | | |------|---- | | |---- |---- | | |------|----- | | |---- |---- | ------------------------ ________________________ |Folders|M.list | | |------ | | |______________| | |Prev. | | |----- | | |----- | |______________________| ... makes [it] more readable ... You can see more lines at the same time, especially since the news postings usually are wrapped anyway... Also, I noticed while I wrote this message, that when editing the messages, the program wasn't able to copy spaces, it just deleted them. Isn't that something of the point with plain text, that all characters, spaces too, should be treated similar? Anyway, it was quite annoying...
Marking NEW.
Status: UNCONFIRMED → NEW
Ever confirmed: true
Keywords: ui
Summary: additional layout for mail/news → [RFE] additional layout for mail/news
How about if there were six available layouts, like this: ---------- ---------- ---------- | | 2 | | 1 | 2 | | 1 | | | 1 |----| or |--------| or |----| 3 | | | 3 | | 3 | | 2 | | ---------- ---------- ---------- or ---------- ---------- ---------- | 1 | | | | | |___1____| |--------| or |1 |2 |3 | or |___2____| | 2 | 3 | | | | | | 3 | ---------- ---------- ---------- and a way to control which pane went where? ___________________ |1 Folder list | [Move Up] |2 Message list | |3 Message preview| [Move Down] ------------------- Kinda like what MicroPlanet Gravity does. Just a suggestion.
I'd like to see alternate layouts as well. My ideal would be the old Netscape 3 alternate layout: --------- | 1 | | ----- 3 | | 2 | | --------- Am going to try to implement this myself as no one else seems to want to. Wish me luck. Never done anything on a project this big before. :) --Gabe
Go Gabe go!! :)
Yes, Gabe, please do go! Thanks to Stuart Summerville for cross-referencing my issue: http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=204004
mmm... my xref was just for your info. I'll leave the dupe operation to someone more qualified... :) sTu.
I would be happy to help with the implementation of this problem, but I have so far failed to get Mozilla to build on my XP box. Yes, I could do development on Linux, but it will complicate things for me a bit. If any of the interested parties would like to cooperate on a solution, I'd be most grateful. Mozilla could be a great mail/news client for me if we could just fix this.
*** Bug 195718 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
*** Bug 247703 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
*** Bug 250727 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
For the proposed three-column layout, the message headers should be layouted multi-line, maybe --------------------- Author, Date, Time Subject Size, Spam-Flag --------------------- (configurable) Otherwise, there is probably not enough space for all the information needed. But IMHO it is unnecessary to view the header of about 50 messages at a time, so this would be a real enhancement.
Product: Browser → Seamonkey
Assignee: sspitzer → mail
This is an Outlook feature parity bug. Why don't we have a keyword for that?
Because a keyword for like three features would be slightly overacting? ;-)
Assignee: mail → nobody
QA Contact: esther → message-display
Summary: [RFE] additional layout for mail/news → Additional layout for mail/news
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