Re: Seperate Msg Window

On Thu, 13 Jan 2005 14:48:30 CST, Chris Garrigues said:

> The first is that the descriptions for the "Use separate Ftoc window" and 
> "Use separate Msg window" options are both incomplete in opposite ways.  
> Both require restarting exmh and the Msg window can also only display a 
> single message just as the ftoc can only display a single folder.

Well, I wasn't sure at the time if re-driving the code to create the
widgets would work right.  Now that Brent has fixed my borked code, we
can  look at cleanups...

> The second comment stems from the ability to only show one message.  The 
> "Clip" option on the message "More..." menu feels very non-intuitive at this 
> point.  It would be nice if the window it displays and the Message Display 
> window were to be merged to use the same code base.  Once that were done, I 
> suspect we could easily evolve to a more intuitive way to display multiple 
> messages, probably based on how one clicks on the ftoc.

Generalizing the 'separate msg/clip' code into one should probably be fairly
straightforward.  Among other things, this would mean that a 'clip' window
would get all the other buttons in addition to "dismiss".

What semantics do people think would be nice for "multiple messages"?
I'm thinking "left click -> open in current/default window" and "right click ->
open in new window".  Anybody have other semantics they'd like to see?

I prefer separate windows - any votes for a Mozilla-style tabbed interface?

Anybody see "multiple ftoc" as useful?  Of late, I've been seeing more and
more times when 2 related threads will get going on different lists - but
without cross-posts.

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