I've commenced a detailed side-by-side comparison of Pandora Mail versus Eudora, and here is some initial feedback on Pandora user interface settings and features that I'd like to see tweaked, made configurable (via Settings dialog), added.
Some are quite important to me, so that I can work with absolute maximum efficiency to save every possible mouse click and button press. Others are of medium or minor importance. They're not presnted in any partocular order, but just as they come to me.
UI-001
Add these to Pandora so that the In or Out mailboxes can be opened instantly, without any scrolling upwards being required. In Pandora there's no quick way to open the In/Out mailboxes when you've scrolled down through the mailboxes navigator in the left panel:
UPDATE:
With further investigation, I found that you seem to be able to place ANY mailbox (not just the In and Out mailboxes) on the toolbar,
The above screenshot shows that (as well as In and Out) I decided to placed a mailbox called Pandora Mail on the toolbar as well, which will be frequently used until I've become familiar with using Pandora. … Very nice.
Do this by going to Settings > Toolbar… Then (1) Click on any mailbox from the list, which causes it to appear in the right-hand panel, and finally (2) Drag the mailbox icon (command) from the right-hand panel to the desired location in the toolbar:
I went back to Eudora and didn't find a way to add mailboxes other than In and Out to its toolbar. … Not so good.
UI-002
Because I have multitudinous messages across many many mailboxes, I want to squeeze the messages list (inside a mailbox) to eliminate every last fraction of a millimetre of wasted vertical space. This is based on font and font size, as well as the way the mailbox is designed. I've gotten Eudora looking like this:
The best I've managed to accomplish so far with Pandora Mail client is as follows, where the arrows indicate vertical white space the I'd like to see reduced:
UI-003
Eudora has a VERY useful "Recent" view, which I use frequently, and it would be great to see this capability in Pandora:
For those who are unaware of this feature, it came with Eudora 7,1 and you see the Recent mailboxes view if you have a non-zero value in the highlighted field in the following screenshot:
Well that's a start, more to follow in coming days …
How on earth do you get this "Recent" view in Eudora? I've never seen that.
ReplyDeleteHello David. This feature was added in Eudora 7.1 according to the Eudora 7.1 User Guide and the Eudora 7.1 New Features Manual for Windows (do a web search to find these PDFs for download).
ReplyDeleteAccording to the New Features manual:
Recent - Opens the selected recently used mailbox. By default, this list shows recently used mailboxes. You can customize the length of this list in the Mailboxes options. See the Setting Eudora Preferences section of the Eudora User Guide.
According to the User Guide (page 321):
Show no more than _ items in the Recent mailbox menus [default 10] — Enter the maximum number of mailboxes you would like to see in the Recent mailbox menus. Set this
option to 0 to disable the Recent mailbox menus.
Perhaps you have the value set to zero which prevents this view from appearing?
I've just included a screenshot, which shows that I have it set to 200 recent mailboxes in the view, but I may reduced it back to 100, it's a very simple option to play with.