On Fri, 2004-04-16 at 19:46, Enver ALTIN wrote: > Believe it or not, majority of `users' just stick with the default.
I'd love to know how you came up with that authoritative statistic. > Anyway, The point I was making is that pan's layout flexibility is impressive. For me, vertical screen real estate is precious. While I have a lovely desktop workstation with enormous screens and high resolution, I also travel a great deal, and so live with my 1024x768 laptop quite a bit. Evolution doesn't optimize available vertical space all that well, IMHO. >From my perspective as a user, the status bar at the bottom is largely unused (messages there appear so briefly that it's rare I ever see what they are) and the grey bar with the title of the currently selected folder and it's new/selected/total counts also takes a great deal of vertical space. So why do I care? In my experience, the two things I'd like to see lots of are message index and message body. The trouble with the "preview pane" sharing vertical space with the message index is that I can't see a lot of the message index *at the same time* as maximizing how much of an individual message I can see. The pan setting I selected for the screenshot I sent was deliberate - it's a panel orientation that I can't quite get in Evo, but that would be cool from my usage perspective. $0.02 [You know, the funny (sic) thing is that for ages we've been trying to "shed" the Outlook look; I've personally been long enamoured with this particular layout available in pan. Just the other day discovered that Outlook 2003 went and implemented tall vertical panes side by side for *both* the index and body panels. <sigh> So I'm advocating this because I think it's a good idea, not because M$ did it :)] AfC -- Andrew Frederick Cowie Operational Dynamics Consulting Pty Ltd Australia: +61 2 9977 6866 North America: +1 646 472 5054 http://www.operationaldynamics.com/ _______________________________________________ evolution maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/evolution
