the pain of "view headers"
the pain of "view headers"
Posted Apr 6, 2006 22:13 UTC (Thu) by pdundas (guest, #15203)In reply to: Thunderbird looks forward by kfiles
Parent article: Thunderbird looks forward
To my mind, the biggest problems with view headers are these:
When you show all headers, you can't scroll them out of the way. With 1200 vertical pixels it's not a problem, but with a 600x800 screen (I have old hardware too) it's truly painful. You can't even scroll down to see the lower headers! Even if there are unusually few headers, you're likely to be restricted to a line or two of the email, in a tiny scrolling area.
"Use 'view source' instead" is not really the answer to this problem!
This is aggravated by the next problem: If you're stuck in one-line email mode, as above, you can't change the view headers mode from full to normal and back without going to the view menu and navigating down through header options. There should be a right-click or a button for this (though the [+] shrink the headers is a help).
Overall it's not too bad a client though.
