Dear Claws Mail developers, in the two line vertical three column layout message list, there is the subject colum, which shows "subject", "from" and "date". Then, next to the subject column, there is a separate "size" column, which shows the size. However, IMHO, it would make more sense to have a separate date column instead of a separate size column. It's done like that in Microsoft Outlook 2013 for example, as you can see in the following picture: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Microsoft_Outlook_2013_Inbox.jpg As you can see, Microsoft Outlok 2013 is showing the date (time) where Claws Mail by default is showing the size. IMHO it would make more sense to do it how Microsoft Outlook 2013 is doing it though. So, I tried to change that via the message list columns configuration (Menu bar -> View -> Set displayed columns -> In message list...). But it looks like the message list columns configuration has no effect when the message list is set to the two line vertical three column layout. When trying to change the order of the columns, i.e. placing date after size for example, it doesn't seem to work. In the one line vertical three column layout (two_line_vertical=0) it does work though. Could you please fix that? It would be much appreciated. Regards
PS: It's not working in the new Claws Mail 3.10.0 either. Regards
(In reply to comment #1) > PS: > > It's not working in the new Claws Mail 3.10.0 either. If no-one in the team fixed that, then you can probably guess that the team knows that the situation in the current code is the same. All you are doing is adding to your noise.
Yes, this layout has all the major info displayed in the Subject column and this isn't customizable for now.
I would just like to revive this issue. While much information might be displayed in the message view, the way it is set up now makes sorting by date (arguably one of the most useful sorting categories) difficult, if not impossible. Would the developers please reconsider adding support for custom columns? Or even just replacing the size by date? It would make three column view much more useful.
Created attachment 1899 [details] Date column separate instead of size column Something like this? :) Of course, a more complete solution would be a separate column configuration for this layout, so the user could choose which column(s) to have separate, which on second line of the Subject column, and which hidden.
That was fast! Something like that, yes. As you say though, a custom configuration for the view would be a better solution, as it would make the three column view more useful. Is this something you would think about doing?
Hi, at the risk of necroing this old thread, I just wanted to second this issue too. I can imagine some use cases in which it makes sense to combine Subject, Date and Sender into one column, such as saving screen real estate. However, most screens are probably now of high enough resolution to allow most users to dedicate a bit of horizontal column space to date and sender, even in a three columns layout (as used in Thunderbird or others). After all, when skimming your inbox for an email from someone or with a specific heading, it's much easier to do so when each of the fields has its own column (so much so, that the behaviour is the default for all other layouts, except 'small screen'). Does anyone know if there is an easy way in the codebase to simply toggle or force the three columns layout to also use the standard message list headings?
Hi, in follow-up to the above, it is maybe obvious and in the documentation - but in case it's useful for anyone else, I just found the prefs_common.two_line_vert in the code which seems to toggle the behaviour. To disable it, just edit your clawsrc file (in ~/.claws-mail on Linux), and change: two_line_vertical=1 to: two_line_vertical=0 Anyway, thanks for a wonderful, hyper-customisable and speedy mailclient, I love Claws! :)
You will find the two_line_vertical hidden preference listed in the manual.