Hacking Mail.app (First bummer of 10.4)
In 10.3, I had hacked Mail.app to display a widescreen view. It really helped me get close to having a handle on my mail, and was a far better use of my PowerBook’s widescreen than the standard stacked three-view. No luck so far in 10.4. Something about Tiger Mail’s custom ‘ExpandingSplitView’ keeps expanding the splitter to fill most of the window when it’s switched to a vertical split.
update: Still not working, but I’ve found that the width of the splitter bar is tied to the height of the window.
update: I’m putting this away for a while. No luck and I’m suspecting the splitter is somehow glued into the application code. If so, it’s probably never going to work from an Interface Builder hack, short of re-building the whole nib (no, I will not try to rebuild the whole nib anytime soon, no no no…)
Final update There’s now a widescreen addon for mail.
heya,
looks like you tried to ping… sorry, got majorly hammered by some spam and now things seem to be broken in that area. :(
I’m frustrated too: I had hacked Mail.app to make the reply-attribution line work right - it should have an extra line before, not after as Mail.app has been doing right along, and now does again since 10.4 replaced my changed Messages.strings. Now I can’t find which .strings file that’s been moved to! Driving me nuts…
Oh good, I found it: /System/Library/Frameworks/
Message.framework/Versions/B/Resources/
English.lproj/Delayed.strings
It is very interesting!
I too found the /System/Library/Frameworks/
Message.framework/Versions/B/Resources/
English.lproj/Delayed.strings
However, I am unable to figure out how to edit it such that Mail will insert the standard sort of reply attribution. e.g.:
—–Original Message—–
From: name
Sent: day, date, time
To: recipent 1; recipient 2; etc.
Cc: cc recipent 1; cc recipient 2; etc.
Subject: subject
I can get as far as the first two lines, but I can’t figure out how to get the “to” “cc” and “subject fields to work. Any ideas?
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