long 'mail list' subjects are unreadable when right-hand pane is open
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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Postler |
New
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Wishlist
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
The current interface e-mail list interface is very nice and practical in its default state, that is when opening Postler and clicking on Inbox (shot 1).
Things get very messy, however, when a message is opened and its content pops up in the right-hand pane (shot 2). Although the current interface works fine for short Subject fields (such as "Re: [R] a question"), it is disastrous for longer ones ("Re: [R] How to read only specified columns from a data file"). Long Subject fields are truncated from the beginning: "Re: [R] How to read only specifi" is replaced by an ellipsis and the only part that stays visible is "ed columns from a data file".
The result is a cryptic and not very useful e-mail list. Thus, the mail list is useful only for the initial inspection of new mail and up until the first message is opened. To continue inspecting the mail list, in many cases one should manually resize the right-hand pane, which is sub-optimal.
One solution would be to re-design the interface of the default mail list. Now the info is roughly presented as follows:
Sarah Goslee
Today 14:19:39 Re: [R] How to read only specified columns from a data file
I would suggest to change that to something similar to the following (mockup in shot 3):
Sarah Goslee Today 14:19:39
Re: [R] How to read only specified columns from a data file
The date should possibly be right-aligned. This arrangement would allow for much longer Subject lines to be displayed in a readable form in the list, even when the right-hand pane is open. A secondary improvement would be that the mail list layout would be consistent with that of the message headers in the right-hand pane:
[From] [Date]
[Subject]
This bug basically comes as an argument against the interface request in #672828 [1].
[1] https:/
Changed in postler: | |
importance: | Undecided → Wishlist |
If the problem is ellipsizing,the mockup doesn't show how this should work when you have the viewer pane visible on the right side.
However,this problem is due to the fact that the subject and the date are in the same label,which then gets ellipsized (which usually causes the beginning of the subject being hidden).