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[beta testers needed] Widescreen Mail.app plugin
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Hey folks,
This thread over at Ars got me dinking around to persuade Mail.app to work in widescreen mode, with the message pane on the right instead of below the message list. To wit:
I've got a very simple version working, and would like your feedback. It has no installer, no Readme, and no icon right now, so there's a few things we'll eventually need right off the bat.
If you want to give it a try, do the following:
1. Download the plugin:
MailWidescreen.mailbundle.zip
and unzip.
2. Quit Mail.app.
3. Install
Have you previously installed one or more Mail.app plugins?
If yes:
a) drop 'MailWidescreen.mailbundle' into ~/Library/Mail/Bundles/
If no:
a) open Terminal and type
Code:
defaults write com.apple.mail EnableBundles -bool true
defaults write com.apple.mail BundleCompatibilityVersion 2
b) open ~/Library/Mail and create a folder named 'Bundles'
c) drop 'MailWidescreen.mailbundle' into ~/Library/Mail/Bundles/
4. Launch Mail, and see if it works!
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Last edited by Mithras; Jun 2, 2006 at 08:31 AM.
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Nice. 
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I don't say much but this deserves a big  !
Thank you, been looking for such a solution for some time...
Oh yeah, and it works perfectly for me.
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Worked fine for me.
Just two suggestions:
1) In your post, you might want to remove the % symbols from your terminal directions. Kinda throws off Terminal noobs like me. 
2) I know you’re probably working on this, but making the vertical divider bar look, uh, “normal” would be a good thing.
Great job! 
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Originally Posted by Sage
2) I know you’re probably working on this, but making the vertical divider bar look, uh, “normal” would be a good thing.
Now that you mention it, I agree.
But this is great! Good job!
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Excellent job. Keep us informed of updates. I'd pay a shareware fee for this.
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Nice! Reminds me of my Entourage set-up back in the day...
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Wow, I'm impressed. Thanks very much for figuring it out.
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can't get it to work... 
followed the instructions... anything I might have missed?
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Originally Posted by Sage
Worked fine for me.
Just two suggestions:
1) In your post, you might want to remove the % symbols from your terminal directions. Kinda throws off Terminal noobs like me.
Fixed, thanks.
2) I know you’re probably working on this, but making the vertical divider bar look, uh, “normal” would be a good thing.
Yeah, I'll work on it. The present version is a total hack that by all rights should not have worked. So getting it to the next level will be a little trickier and involve doing things "right". But I'll throw up the source soon, so enterprising folks can help out.
cheers
mithras
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Originally Posted by threestain
can't get it to work...
followed the instructions... anything I might have missed?
Hmm, are you sure you typed in the Terminal commands precisely? And are you on 10.4? I'm pretty sure this requires Tiger.
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yeah think so. am on tiger, and hang on...
just found the problem. for some reason despite my actually doing it I hadn't copied the bundle into the folder!
is there an easy way to turn it on and off, without having to move the bundle?
Good stuff though - looks very nice!
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Originally Posted by threestain
is there an easy way to turn it on and off, without having to move the bundle?
Not yet, though that's obviously on the to-do list.
cheers
mithras
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Working great here. Thanks for doing this! It's something I've wanted for a long time.
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This is awesome. Thanks so much for doing this. If you can hack this into a pref pane, ala MailTags and ActOn, that would be great, even if it's just a toggle box... Are other layouts possible, like in Thunderbird?
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Works like a charm! Thanks, Mithras!
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works awesome. aren't you the best!
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Great job, you are keeping me from going back to thunderbird.
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This rocks. I've been wanting something like this for awhile now. I've had it installed for about 24 hours and it's been working great so far.
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Originally Posted by Mithras
you were looking for an icon:
transp. png ...
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NIce logo. Probably can't be used with the Apple logo in it tho'. Apple's touchy about that.
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Originally Posted by -Q-
NIce logo. Probably can't be used with the Apple logo in it tho'. Apple's touchy about that.
with a widescreen instead of the apple logo
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Does the friendly installer include a friendly uninstaller just in case we want to deep six it?
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Originally Posted by Mithras
... and the spiffy (Apple) icon
nice to read this
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Let me know when the cease and desist gets there.
(Really do like that icon - looks great with the widescreen too.)
Downloaded the latest version and it's still rock solid and working great.
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That looks choice. I'll install it as soon as I get home. Nice work!
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I kinda like it. Installed it today.
I'll live with it for a while and see how it works out.
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It'll be perfect once you implement the alternate row colouring, and two line info. Thanks for a great plugin!
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Instead of Mail-appetizer, just use the growl-plugin. Does pretty much the exact same thing in the unified growl-interface.
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i must say, i do like it. i like it a lot.
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Macbook Pro 15" (fully spec'd out)
...waiting for 6g ipods.
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eyecandy, if you want Real Name credit or a website link or something, let me know...
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How so? I'm using mail.appetizer and it's not impacted email notices for me at all....
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i do notice on my macbook with the mail window all the way open that it is really hard to get the preview pane back if you double click to close it. you have to go ALL the way to the right before you get the resize icon and can double click it back open...
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