Re: [Evolution] Mail reader window useless

[Lonnie Borntreger <email borntreger com>]

That's odd that Outlook on a Mac is the target "look and feel" for
Evolution, since Outlook is "native" on Windows (and probably 80%+ of
its users are on Windows).  I would think that the Windows capabilities
would be the target.... or at least a compile-time option.  Basically,
you might as well just go the rest of the way and remove that
"double-click" view because it is basically as useless as tits on a
boar.

The ability to completely be devoid of a preview pane is my favorite
feature of Outlook, and Evolution.  Now there's not much to distinguish
Evolution from Netscape/Mozilla or anything else.

Oh well..... product decisions are product decisions..... and I know I
can always go elsewhere.... just don't want to.

I'm no gnome developer (my specialty is KSH/SH, Makefiles, change
control and system administration), but could you point me to what files
(in other branches of Evolution) that I would find that "old" way of
viewing mails?  I would like to see if maybe I can understand the code
enough to make my own merge of that code for my personal use.

At least I know it's not broken.

Thanks,
Lonnie Borntreger


On Tue, 2002-05-21 at 12:26, Jeffrey Stedfast wrote:
> It's meant to be the way it is. It was rewritten to act like Outlook on
> the Mac.
>
> Jeff
>
> On Tue, 2002-05-21 at 12:51, Lonnie Borntreger wrote:
> > CVS Evolution, GAL, GtkHTML, SOUP, GNOME-SPELL
> >
> > When I double-click on a message to read it in a separate viewer window,
> > that window has no menu or toolbar.  This started three days ago.  Makes
> > so that I have to go back the the folder view to move to the next
> > message, or forward/reply the message.  Very annoying.
> >
> > Is somebody actively working on this, or should I bugzilla it?

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TTFN,
Lonnie Borntreger