>>Furthermore, I would like the ability to lock the menus to the message >>window, rather than having them floating around, is this possible? > >... use an OSX Finder-like toolbar. This could >be hidden or shown using one of those little clear oval buttons over on >the right and could also be customisable so a user would only have to be >presented with those tool buttons that they regularly use (I hardly ever >use the buttons at all actually, except for the Show address book, >Forward and Redirect ones because I can never remember the key codes for >those functions). The customisable toolbar could also hold the "View >only" field/drop-down and maybe background processes as well.
With this alteration alone, you'd also have to integrate a View Only... tool into the toolbar of the Recent Mail window, Search Results and the Address Book as well. But this would be cool. You can easily hide it away if you don't need it. The buttons at the bottom of the Address Book for New Contact/New Group/New Folder/Edit/Delete could join the View Only... in the toolbar, easy enough. Then, if you leave the address book open and have it filtered, it would be easy to tell at a glance how you had it filtered without actually making the window active and seeing the floating View Only... update itself. Default for the Address Book would have to be an open toolbar. But can you do it in OS 9? ;) You could put the Status in the toolbar, but wouldn't the Background Processes still stay as a separate window? Then you can be in another app and see what's going on as it doesn't hide itself on switching apps as do the toolbar-type floating windows. I would find snap-to/cling-to functionality to the windows a welcome addition in any case (e.g. Adobe app palettes, DragThing docks, etc.). Chris --
