Bug 106564

Summary:	wish: more than one line per message in message-list, if it gets too narrow (e.g. three parallel panes)
Product:	[Unmaintained] kmail	Reporter:	S. Burmeister <sven.burmeister>
Component:	general	Assignee:	kdepim bugs <kdepim-bugs>
Status:	RESOLVED DUPLICATE
Severity:	wishlist
Priority:	NOR
Version:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	openSUSE
OS:	Linux
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Description S. Burmeister 2005-05-31 20:29:48 UTC

Version:            (using KDE KDE 3.4.1)
Installed from:    SuSE RPMs
OS:                Linux

By mistake I set kmail to display the three panes next to eeach other. First I thought: nice, more messages in the list and more of the body visible. As standard emails are not wider than ~80 letters, kmail did not even wrap the lines in the body. Then I thought: Damn, I cannot see the From field because the message-list is too narrow to display more than the subject.

No matter, whether one likes the view or not, it should be usable. Thus it would be very useful, if one could have more than one line for each message in the message-list. This way the subject could get one, the sender could get one and size, date and attachment could also get one.

Same for the quick-search bar. The text-field gets too small because of the status drop-down menu. If they would be put in two lines, this would help a lot.

The only thing that really is a pain, would be the sorting, as it would look a bit weird, to have the current column-headers one clicks on, without any column below them. Yet maybe one could simply have them as "buttons" at the top of the list.

Comment 1 Andreas Gungl 2005-05-31 20:42:01 UTC

*** Bug 106565 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 2 S. Burmeister 2005-12-06 12:16:22 UTC

For sorting one could intorduce a "drop-down"-button at the top of the list that cycles through the default sorting variants, such as descending or ascending when one clicks on it.

In order to choose the criteria, i.e. sorting by date, or sorting by sender, the user would have to use the drop-down functionality of the button.

The button would display the currently used criteria and order, i.e. Sort: <Date (ascending)>. <> is the button.

Comment 3 S. Burmeister 2006-10-26 20:58:09 UTC

http://scr3.golem.de/?d=0610/Ubuntu6.10&a=48583&s=9

Here is a screenshot. It looks pretty good to me and I do not think it would make sense to just not do it that way because they were first. In the end Outlook was first in this particular view anyway.

I like the solution of the different PIM-components. If the current bar is left the way it is now, it will waste a lot of space or annoy people because one has to hide/unhide it all the time.

Even people who do not like the three-pane-view would not lose any space for the mail-list and preview-pane but just some vertical space in the folder-pane. The latter does not even affect all users but just those who have lots of folders and have them expanded all the time.

Any thoughts, opinions?

Comment 4 Thomas McGuire 2007-04-12 20:22:53 UTC


*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 81272 ***