Re: Message and folder panes have horizontal scrollbars

On Fri, 4 Jun 2004 13:46:48 +0200 (Romance Daylight Time) Xavier Nodet <[email protected]> wrote:

XN> The attached screenshot was done on Win XP with M not in
XN> fullscreen mode, and features some scrollbars on the bottom of both
XN> the folder tree pane, and the message view pane.
XN> 
XN> About the message view... I wonder what the width of the whole pane
XN> is. It seems to be equal to the size it would have if M's window was
XN> maximized (I have a 1920x1200 screen resolution). How can I change
XN> it?

 I don't know why does the folder view (upper right window) have such huge
width but you can, of course, resize it to a smaller size by reducing the
size of the columns.

XN> I would of course very much prefer that this width be equal to
XN> the actual width of the displayed part, so that:
XN> - there is no scrollbar
XN> - the HTML viewer actually wraps text (at this time, it wraps text
XN>   at the 'virtual' width of the pane, rather than the displayed
XN>   width).
XN> 
XN> Note that if I open the message in a separate window, this windows
XN> behaves differently: there is no scrollbar, and the HTML viewer
XN> wraps at the edge of the window. I like it much more...

 Right now I really don't understand why it behaves like this. I certainly
agree that wrapping to window boundary would be preferable so I'll try to
look at this. Could you please open a bug if you can reproduce this reliably?

XN> With respect to the tree view, it seems to have the same kind of
XN> problem: at this time, it has a scroll bar on the bottom while none of
XN> the tree entries goes up to the rigth edge of the displayed part. The
XN> 'virtual' width seems too large, and I don't see how to change it.

 I'm afraid this is a problem with the native tree control. I did look at
this some time ago and couldn't understand why does the tree sometimes show
the scrollbar unnecessarily -- but the fact is that it does and does it
fully by its own will.

XN> BTW, I thought there was a setting to control the positioning of the
XN> 3 panes, but could not find it back...

 There is an option to swap tree with the right hand side windows in the
"folder tree" page (the topmost one).

 Regards,
VZ



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