On Sun, Oct 26, 2008 at 11:46:38AM +0100, Anders Karlsson wrote: > * tchomby <tchomby@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> [20081025 13:04]: > > It's a shame the sidebar patch is so problematic. [...] > As long as you specify your mailfolders with "mailboxes", you can use > "c" or "y" to change to a folder with new mail or get quick overview > of the folders with new mail. You just won't see how many unread there > are - but do you really care about that? Yes? Sometimes? :) > The sidebar patch, which I did use for a while, was quickly discarded > for eating up screen realestate I could ill afford to be without. And > if you keep hiding the sidebar, why bother patching it in in the first > place? While your point is not lost on me (i'm a screen real estate monger too), that seems like a silly argument against the feature... A lot of folks I work with use MS Outlook (and for that matter, almost everything they use) in fullscreen mode, and switch back and forth with alt-tab -- even when they're using larger resolution external monitors. Same goes for some (but a much smaller percentage of) Linux users, using GUI mail applications. Screen real estate is not much of a limiting factor these days... You have many options, e.g. make your font smaller, minimize apps or hide them under other ones, get a bigger (or another) monitor, etc. I have always wanted mutt to have a 3-paned design, much like most any modern GUI-oriented mail reader. I use wide windows mainly so I can see more of the subject line in the index, so I would want a top pane which is the full width of the window, to see a partial index view. Then the remaining lower portion I would split between the side bar, and the mutt viewer window. If someone were to reimplement the sidebar patch, I would hope that configuration were possible, and I would very eagerly await such functionality smoothly integrated into Mutt. :) -- Derek D. Martin http://www.pizzashack.org/ GPG Key ID: 0xDFBEAD02 -=-=-=-=- This message is posted from an invalid address. Replying to it will result in undeliverable mail due to spam prevention. Sorry for the inconvenience.
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