{"id":497,"date":"2006-06-03T06:33:40","date_gmt":"2006-06-03T13:33:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theappleblog.com\/2006\/06\/03\/mailapp-and-widescreen-displays\/"},"modified":"2006-06-03T06:33:40","modified_gmt":"2006-06-03T13:33:40","slug":"mailapp-and-widescreen-displays","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/planet.mcb.guru\/?p=497","title":{"rendered":"Mail.app and widescreen displays"},"content":{"rendered":"

OK, I’ve had my gripes about Mail.app before (see Mail Signatures Suck<\/a>, but I’ve never mentioned the layout of the Mail.app window. Now there’s a solution that highlights a fault in the original and almost entirely related to the current trend towards widescreen monitors.<\/p>\n

Why? Well, the current structure of the Mail.app window assumes that you want a list of folders on the left, and a split between the list of messages in a folder, and the message itself on the right. <\/p>\n

This is fine on a standard 4:3 monitor. But on your typical widescreen, as used in the iMac or Powerbook\/MacBook and variations thereof, you end up with the potential to waste a lot of space.<\/p>\n

If you use the full-screen for your Mail.app window (like me), you’ll end up either with a very wide folder list, or a wide message list, which often means lots of white space, either to pad out your mail folders, or to pad out the columns in your message list. And even with a hi-res 20″ widescreen display, the amount of space you can devote to the actual mail message is quite small. <\/p>\n

Now there’s a plug-in for Mail.app that splits your screen into three vertical columns, one for folders, one for the mail list, and one for the message. You can download the plug-in from here (with instructions)<\/a>, and thanks to The Unofficial Apple Weblog<\/a> for the heads up. <\/p>\n

Here’s the traditional layout: <\/p>\n

Mail.app three panels<\/a><\/p>\n

And the same folder and message in the three panels layout:<\/p>\n

Mail.app three panels<\/a><\/p>\n

The overall result is that you can see more messages in a folder without having to scroll, and you an usually see all of the mail message too - or at least more of it at the same time. <\/p>\n

Well worth trying out if you are a widescreen Mac user.<\/p>\n\n

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OK, I’ve had my gripes about Mail.app before (see Mail Signatures Suck, but I’ve never mentioned the layout of the Mail.app window. Now there’s a solution that highlights a fault in the original and almost entirely related to the current trend towards widescreen monitors.
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