Comments on: Optimize your UI’s readability – why Apple Mail sucks

By: Adrian

Adrian — Fri, 24 Nov 2006 22:46:20 +0000

Go to the View Menu and pick Use Small Mailbox Icons. Pull the horizontal divider down to the bottom of the window and double-click on messages to open them. Resize the message window to the width you prefer.
Optionally go to the View Menu and pick Hide Mailboxes and/or Hide Toolbar.
Seems flexible enough to me.

By: David

David — Fri, 24 Nov 2006 22:21:16 +0000

Author said:

There is no reason why the folder list on the left has to use 32x32px icons by default. Change the default to 16x16px.

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Sure there is, Fitt’s Law. Larger folders are larger targets for the mouse. Most people do not have many folders, so big targets are a better use of real estate than empty space, for people who have a lot of folders, that is what the pref is there for.

I agree that 3 pane via that plugin is best. I use it.

What do you thing of buttons that about? I think they are terrible.

-David

By: Bob

Bob — Fri, 24 Nov 2006 21:16:54 +0000

I noticed a very strange problem with this plug-in – all of my GMail and Yahoo mail vanished completely…not sure why. Only IMAP became visible.

But your post here came across more as a rant than constructive criticism.

By: Watchful

Watchful — Fri, 24 Nov 2006 18:55:35 +0000

I believe THIS PLUGIN is what you are looking for. I use it and I love it, makes Apple's Mail the best email client out there!

By: Kevin Donahue

Kevin Donahue — Fri, 24 Nov 2006 15:45:39 +0000

I’m not an interface designer, but I think Mail.app could benefit from a Safari style “bookmarks” bar above the message list & message detail instead of the folder pane on the left. Imagine a bar at the top for Inbox, Sent, Trash, and then folders. That would be great from a “real estate” standpoint.