Hi Ming-Li,
On Saturday, September 23, 2000 at 3:20:29 PM you wrote:
>> I know neither Agent's nor XNews's way of doing things, and
>> I'm in fact quite satisfied with TB's way of visualising
>> threading (the threading itself is not so good).
> Again, I can't talk about XNews since my memory has faded. Agent
> does this and it's quite clever, at least to me:
> Subject Author Date
> This is a thread John 9/23/00
> I hope that's clear enough (Note that I omitted other irrelevant
> columns).
I know that way of threading, Gnus can do it in a similar way.
> This is not to say the problem can't be overcome or mitigated. I'm
> just saying it's not as easy as it seems, and I'm glad for not being
> the one who has to come out with a perfect solution. :)
I think we have different opinions about what is "the problem" we are
discussing. To me, the problem is not that any column is not wide
enough for it's content or that I can't see enough information. I
don't care if the subject is repeated multiple times, although that's
wasted space. But I don't want the first column to get wider all the
time when the thread is expanded. There's no reason for that, because
a) I can read the subject perfectly in the first message of the
thread, even if it's very long.
b) TB *always* widens the column, even if the subject is very short.
But by widening the column, other columns to the right are immediately
out of screen. That's my problem, not anything that's displayed in the
columns.
Oliver Sturm
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