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.

Small Splitter (short window):

Huge Splitter (regular sized 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.

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link: May 02, 2005 1:19 pm
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8 Responses to “Hacking Mail.app (First bummer of 10.4)”

• drunkenbatman 2:00pm on Wednesday, May 4th, 2005 # Reply

  

  heya,

  looks like you tried to ping… sorry, got majorly hammered by some spam and now things seem to be broken in that area. :(

• Nic Wolff 8:06pm on Wednesday, May 4th, 2005 # Reply

  

  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…

• Nic Wolff 8:36pm on Wednesday, May 4th, 2005 # Reply

  

  Oh good, I found it: /System/Library/Frameworks/
  Message.framework/Versions/B/Resources/
  English.lproj/Delayed.strings

• Samanta 9:20am on Thursday, July 21st, 2005 # Reply

  

  It is very interesting!

• frustrated w/ mail 12:07am on Friday, July 22nd, 2005 # Reply

  

  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?

• emanuel 4:36pm on Monday, September 19th, 2005 # Reply

  

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