Thank you for this preview. Settings looks hugely improved. For the mail reading pane I would like some element that holds the message list and the reading pane together on monitors where multiple windows are open and possibly overlapping. Maybe a small color band that extends the graphic surrounding the reading pane, maybe something else.
Thank you for this preview. Settings looks hugely improved. For the mail reading pane I would like some element that holds the message list and the reading pane together on monitors where multiple windows are open and possibly overlapping. Maybe a small color band that extends the graphic surrounding the reading pane, maybe something else.
Thanks Paul. I played with allowing making the message list semi-transparent so the theme can be seen across the entire page, but I abandoned this direction as it proved to be very hard to do well because of all the layering I have to do to make it look like it does in the screenshot. The browser will help hold them together some as it does stretch across the entire page (not in the screenshot). Once I've got everything working, I'll revisit to see if I can do better.
I played with this again and got it mostly working (making the left pane semi-transparent so the theme background stretches the entire page) and I really dislike it. It makes the text for the messages harder to read and the whole left pane look kind of muddy. So that isn't a good solution.
I also early on played with ~20 different layouts for the reading pane with variations of the app bar spanning the entire top of the screen or not, the actions aligned differently, the conversation being in a card or being full bleed with a max-width on the content itself, the subject being aligned differently (full bleed or also getting the max-width) and a few other variants. All of this to say, I've tried a lot of variations and this is the one I think that works best across a lot of considerations. Hopefully the browser chrome does enough to make it all look like one window.
Thank you for this preview. Settings looks hugely improved. For the mail reading pane I would like some element that holds the message list and the reading pane together on monitors where multiple windows are open and possibly overlapping. Maybe a small color band that extends the graphic surrounding the reading pane, maybe something else.
Thanks Paul. I played with allowing making the message list semi-transparent so the theme can be seen across the entire page, but I abandoned this direction as it proved to be very hard to do well because of all the layering I have to do to make it look like it does in the screenshot. The browser will help hold them together some as it does stretch across the entire page (not in the screenshot). Once I've got everything working, I'll revisit to see if I can do better.
I played with this again and got it mostly working (making the left pane semi-transparent so the theme background stretches the entire page) and I really dislike it. It makes the text for the messages harder to read and the whole left pane look kind of muddy. So that isn't a good solution.
I also early on played with ~20 different layouts for the reading pane with variations of the app bar spanning the entire top of the screen or not, the actions aligned differently, the conversation being in a card or being full bleed with a max-width on the content itself, the subject being aligned differently (full bleed or also getting the max-width) and a few other variants. All of this to say, I've tried a lot of variations and this is the one I think that works best across a lot of considerations. Hopefully the browser chrome does enough to make it all look like one window.