Making it with Mail.app
Posted on May 9, 2005
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Probably the single most contentious issue with OS X 10.4 (aka Tiger) has been the face-lift given to Mail: the web seems to be divided between the “It looks alright to me” camp and the “Beaten to within an inch of its life with the ugly stick” camp.
I was originally of the mindset that the new Mail was indeed ugly but after having used it for a week I gotta say: it’s still ugly, but I don’t mind quite so much.
The new format for the mailboxes has completely grown on me, I like it much more than the old drawer mechanism.
The new implementation of Search is bizarre to me, do I really have to type my search term first and then select the modality of the search? Isn’t that a bit ass-backwards?
What I do still find ugly is the menubar, which I’ve managed to reduce to three items: Junk, Get New Mail, and Search. It’s a crap looking menubar no two ways about it so the less the better.
The only other thing that gets on my nerves is that the mailboxes seem to have to be aligned on the left whereas I’ve spent the last three years with them on the right. I wonder if I can carve up the Nib file in Interface Builder without breaking anything…?