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Composer is too narrow #6589

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marcoambrosini opened this issue May 30, 2022 · 8 comments
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Composer is too narrow #6589

marcoambrosini opened this issue May 30, 2022 · 8 comments

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@marcoambrosini
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marcoambrosini commented May 30, 2022

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  1. Compose

Expected behavior

The composer is reasonably wide

Actual behavior

The composer is unreasonably narrow

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@marcoambrosini
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Leaving a couple of references here: gmail and Protonmail. They're maybe too big but I think that when composing, most of the screen should be occupied by the composer

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@ChristophWurst
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@nimishavijay @jancborchardt what width shall we use?

@szaimen
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szaimen commented May 30, 2022

Maybe the large modal size?

@Bibo-Joshi
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Another comment in a similar direction is that the width of received mails is rather narrow and doesn't get wider even if you collapse the inbox column to a minimum. See e.g. the dead space around the mail body in the following picture:

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I would very much like to have the mail use the full available width (minus some padding) or at least have the possibility to adjust the width like for the inbox column.

I'm commenting this here as a "which fixed width should we use" discussion is apparently ongoing in the linked pr #6717. If I should open a new issue instead, please tell :)

@jdaviescoates
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jdaviescoates commented Aug 21, 2022

Yes, the ridiculously small pop-up compose window of the current version of Mail is why I cannot event begin to try it out. It never used to be this bad (as you can still see from the screenshot used on https://apps.nextcloud.com/apps/mail ), but I find this current iteration to be completely unusable.

Edit: sharing a couple more examples of more reasonable composer windows too:

SnappyMail (the actively maintained Rainloop fork)

Screenshot from 2022-08-21 14-11-46

Roundcube default theme (you can drag it wider too if you want):

Screenshot from 2022-08-21 14-12-12

Outlook 365

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@nimishavijay
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I agree, if it's not possible to interact with the background then it should be bigger. AFAIK the modal composer is a first step towards a popup composer like in Gmail which allows you to browse your mails when you are composing, there it makes sense to have a smaller composer.
With a modal composer I agree that it can be changed to large size.

@jancborchardt
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Let’s look at the default though, not a specific "big" modal composer few people open. Cause the default experience in e.g. Gmail looks like this:

Gmail composer

And this is what we should aim for – not an oversized composer as default.

@jancborchardt
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Regarding the main issue here – seems this is because of a font-size issue as it’s not 15px but still 13. #6717

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