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Bug 792389 - Refine main window layout
Refine main window layout
Status: RESOLVED OBSOLETE
Product: geary
Classification: Other
Component: ux
master
Other Linux
: High normal
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Assigned To: Geary Maintainers
Geary Maintainers
needs-design
Depends on:
Blocks: 713856 713884 714183 714935 741648 746055
 
 
Reported: 2018-01-09 23:02 UTC by Michael Gratton
Modified: 2019-03-31 13:34 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
GNOME version: ---


Description Michael Gratton 2018-01-09 23:02:36 UTC 
Geary has accumulated a lot of different requests for various main window configurations and features such as full-window mode (Bug 713856), horizontal layout (Bug 714391), merged conversation list and viewer (a.k.a GMail-style layout, Bug 714183), responsive layouts (Bug 747112), and so on. The current main window layout is by no means perfect, so it would be good to step back and think about what we want to aim for.

I tend to agree with Jim's comment in Bug 714391 comment #9 that a merged conversation list and viewer is the way to go for non-widescreen displays, which along with a means of easily hiding/showing the account sidebar may take care of most use-cases. However it might be the case that for very width-constrained environments a stack with the existing UI as three separate panes might still be necessary.

I'll start collecting requirements as dependencies/duplicates of this bug, if anyone has other suggestions please do mention them here.
Comment 1 Edward 2018-05-24 22:09:04 UTC 
I would like to suggest that when View Source is selected, if possible, display that information within the confines of Geary.

In Fedora Linux (28), LibreOffice launches in order to display the headers.

Thank you.
Comment 2 Michael Gratton 2019-03-31 13:34:00 UTC 
This is being taken care of over at https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/geary/issues/141

Edward, if LibreOffice is launched by View Source, it's because you have that set as the default editor for plain text files. LibreOffice isn't a great plain text file editor, so I would recommend you install GEdit and set that as the default instead.