GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 249313
Display long Headers shortened, collapse/expand UI
Last modified: 2012-02-08 11:18:38 UTC
When viewing an email, the Normal display setting shows the subject, sender, date, and all recipients in what appears the email body area. Mozilla shows the headers in a widget which is obviously a different widget, which is also collapsable to a single line showing subject, sender, and date, also an icon to indicate the presence of attachments. I find this minimal display highly desirable. On a 12 inch monitor (laptop) it doesn't take very many recipients for the header display area to take up half the text area in the message body.
I-m quite sure this is a duplicate request
I looked and bug 202024 is pretty similar. It requests a length limit per field, I suggest a single line with the three most important fields. Also, bug 202024 was created in march '01, was last commented on in july '01, is still marked NEW, and is assigned to evolution-mail-maintainters@ximian.com. So it was requested 2.5 years ago, and seems to have been left there.
one now can say which fields to display in the preferences in evolution1.5-2.0.0.0.200409211947-0.snap.ximian.8.1. is that suitable enough && can we close this one?
While that is an interesting feature it doesn't have the convenience of what I'm asking for. It also doesn't condense the header display into one line Perhaps if you could create profiles of headers to display, and then have those profiles populate the 'Message Display' submenu of the View menu. I can attach screenshots of mozilla/thunderbird if you like.
reassigning jpr's old evolution\miscellaneous bugs to harish
If I get this right (the first part of the original report), this is a request to limit the height of any header, taking up 1 or 2 lines only -- regardless how many recipients there are, for example. This is useful, IMHO. Proposed UI: One of those arrows displayed for any header that exceeds the threshold indicating there is more content, which can expanded on the fly.
*** Bug 330170 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
That's close to what I was asking for, but still not quite. I've attached three screenshots to illustrate. All three are showing the same email, one in evolution, and two in thunderbird. The one in evolution shows how an email with many recipients has a very large header display, approximately half the email preview pane. In thunderbird with the expanded header display, the To header has the threshold UI you're suggesting. In thunderbird with the condensed hear display, there is one line total to show three headers (Subject, From, Date).
Created attachment 59681 [details] Evolution header display
Created attachment 59682 [details] thunderbird condensed
Created attachment 59683 [details] thunderbird expanded
Justin, I did understand this. But thanks for the illustrating screenshots anyway, makes it easier to grok for anyone else later. I specifically referred to the first part in comment 6, cause I really do see its usefulness and agree with that part of the request. However, I doubt the usefulness of the "condensed" header. As your screenshot clearly shows, it merely repeats the info which already is clearly visibly highlighted in the mail list. Since it takes about the same space, it does not add any value, IMHO. In that case, the headers even could be not displayed at all. Which is another filed bug I came across yesterday. ;) Justin, a quick hint you might find useful, as this bug is about screen real-estate: GNOME Desktop Preferences, Menus & Toolbars, try "Text beside icons", rather than "Text below icons" (command 'gnome-ui-properties'). HTH
*** Bug 257510 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Adjusting keywords, Summary. Component Mailer. Probably GtkHTML, though.
for not showing any headers, see bug 331055. adding srini to cc as he is working on something similar according to http://blogs.gnome.org/view/sragavan/2006/05/08/0
Thanks a lot andre. The blogs shows a initial work of the proposal, to add a +/- next to the header to cut it short based on a configurable number of addresses to be shown.
still valid in 2.7, updating version number.
Bumping version to a stable release.
I think this is pretty much achieved now in Evolution 3.2.3. You can shorten the header display in only one line to only see Subject and Sender. It does not show the time though. Closing as FIXED, please reopen if you still miss something.