GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 411787
Column rearrangement uses big red ugly arrows
Last modified: 2021-05-19 12:14:00 UTC
Evolution 2.8.1, Ubuntu 6.10 When dragging a message list column, the pending column rearrangement is represented by a pair of big and very bright red arrows. This is ugly compared with the feedback used for column rearrangement in other mail clients. Either the pending new arrangement should be shown by rearranging the other columns live during the drag (as in Apple Mail and Outlook Express), or the pending position of the dragged column should be shown using a theme-colored border between the columns (as in Thunderbird).
Someone motivated to hack on ETable will need to step up for this. Not it.
(In reply to comment #0) > When dragging a message list column, the pending column rearrangement is > represented by a pair of big and very bright red arrows. That "pair of big and very bright red arrows" also shows up when drag-and-dropping a new column from the dialog launched by the "Add a Column..." (right click) menu item. (Tested on 2.28.0, but all current versions probably do that).
(In reply to comment #1) > Someone motivated to hack on ETable will need to step up for this. Looking at evolution and just two other applications (nautilus and rhythmbox) makes clear that "column header configurability" and the "methods to reorganize column headers" differ quite a bit between these three applications. (Should I provide a list of differences?) Would it be worthwhile to request gtk+ level implementations for column header tweaking? Or do these already exist? > Not it. Which probably means something like: "That someone won't be me".
(In reply to comment #3) > (In reply to comment #1) > Would it be worthwhile to request gtk+ level implementations for column header > tweaking? Or do these already exist? And/or request an item in the HIG on this stuff.
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