Peter Lairo wrote:
> 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.
If you don't want the columns, disable it. Why complain when there's a
way out?
> 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.
Should file a bug to get tooltips back.
> 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.
If there's a new mesage in a folder, it still shows up as "FolderName
(X)" where X is the number of new messages. So I guess you're
complaining about the Total Message count not being displayed. I think
the number of new messages imore useful and I personally don't have much
use for the Total Message count. You might have a different opinion.
> 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.
Tooltips should be there I agree. File a bug.
- Pratik
> 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.
>
>
