On 11 Apr 2012, at 20:57, Benny Kj?r Nielsen wrote: > On 11 Apr 2012, at 20:17, Niels Kobsch?tzki wrote: > >> MailMate has loads of different views. Unfortunately a lot of them >> switch MailMate away from the widescreen-layout (three vertical >> panes). Is there a way to have all views in the widescreen layout? > > Not easily. The widescreen layout was created, because a user asked > for it. I kind of think of all of the layouts as proof-of-concepts, > that is, they are examples of what can be done with the layout system > (each layout is defined using a plist file). It would be nice if some > of the characteristics of these layouts were more orthogonal. For > example, that widescreen style or thread arcs could be > enabled/disabled for each layout. Some day I would like to revisit how > this works. > > So, the only way to get widescreen layout for some of the other > layouts is to copy and change them. Unfortunately that means that if I > change one of the default layouts then that change is not going to be > seen in the copied layouts. Here are some resources if you would like > to explore this part of MailMate: > > http://manual.mailmate-app.com/customization#layouts > http://blog.freron.com/2010/widescreen-layout/
Just wow, I didn't expect that you can go that far in customizing MailMate? > >> I noticed that switching via the menu/shortcuts switches the layout >> while switching via the buttons in the toolbar doesn't switch >> layouts. > > The buttons in the toolbar are not related to layouts. They are > special searches for related messages. It's irritating that in the menu a Correspondence-layout exists and that the Correspondence-button in the toolbar do two different things (the same for thread-arcs and the Thread-button). Maybe renaming them would be good? But I have no suggestions right now what better names would be :( Niels
