[Design] Detail view access enhancements to calendar

[Davor Cubranic]

Alec Flett wrote:

> I completely agree that narrow columns are easy to read, but I get a 
> lot of HTML-based e-mail that is often simply too wide for a 
> three-column layout... and in fact the mere presence of a horizontal 
> scroll bar is annoying to me. Further, I use quicksearch in 
> Thunderbird quite a bit, and so I generally don't have much of a need 
> to see more than 5-10 messages at a time. In fact, when I try the 
> three column layout, showing 30+ message titles at a time is actually 
> too much information for me.

I'm getting better about processing my daily folders quickly and so 
they're mostly pretty empty, but for some reason I still greatly prefer 
the 3-column layout. (And to think that I only started using it maybe a 
year ago.)

Besides, shouldn't HTML email be even easier to fit this way without 
having to scroll horizontally? All the mail app has to do is reflow a P 
section differently, unlike with plain text, where there is always some 
amount of guessing where linebreaks are used to separate paragraphs and 
where simply to break a long line. (Outlook even gives you a button in 
each message to switch between viewing original linebreaks and the 
re-flowed text, for the odd time where it heuristics are wrong. :-)

> This is not to say that my way is better, but rather that I have some 
> pretty specific, valid reasons for preferring this format over 
> chandler's existing layout. (This crosses into the "preference" realm, 
> ironically, and thunderbird does get by with allowing the user to 
> change this, without going to a preferences window)

Really? How do you rearrange the panes without going through Preferences?

Davor