Hi,
The "new" mail folder pane with red/unread collumns is horrible because:
1. It uses up more space because the two extra collums *must* (unless
disabled) take up a *certain* amount of space to be usable. Thus
mandatorily taking away valuable space from the actual folder names.
2. The only alternative is to completely remove one or both of the extra
collumns. But then you don't have that info at all.
3. Newsgroups typically have thousands, if not tens of thousands of
messages. This requires the extra collums to be even wider, taking even
more space away from the actual folder names.
4. The folder pane looks like crap with so many folder names chopped off.
5. The original solution (to have the unread/tolal messages right after
the folder names ("ExampleFolderName (3/14500)") was much cleaner and
took up less valiuable space.
5. The original solution showed cut of folder names and/or unread/total
messages as a tooltip. So no matter how long a name was, you could
always get all the info. Most folder names were completely legible, plus
60-80% of the message counts were legible too. Now we have chopped off
texts all over the place (message counts here, long folders there).
Before *one line* was either legible or not. It's just a mess.
Please bring back the original folder display. Please at least make the
original display a UI pref option.
BTW. I have a resolution of 1280x1024 with large fonts - and even then
the space taken up is unjustifiable.
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Regards,
Peter Lairo
