My understanding of the changes to the folder pane is primarily to implement the new outliner widget which add greatly improved performance and flexibility. It looks like this just landed this week, so comments and bug filing is good, but have some patience about the bugs - I'm sure it will take a while to get all the issues with the new folder pane worked out! Once it seems like it will be a nice part of the improvements to performance and flexibility .
Cheers,
Shawn
Peter Lairo wrote:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]">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.
