Another crap “improvement” to the package!
I have numerous “local folders” in my set up. Now, with the “new variant” (sorry, COVID) there are large vertical gaps between each folder, which I CAN’T CHANGE!!!. So, now I have to scroll interminably to either add a message to a particular folder or to access an existing meassage. Please, eM Client, WHY DO THIS WITHOUT THINKING???
Please permit the user to list the folders WITHOUT huge spaces between them to allow easier selection.
Thank you
Martin
You can. There are two ways to do it:
In your settings.
With the mouse hovering over the folder list, hold the Ctrl key on your keyboard and scroll the mouse wheel.
Have you tried adjusting the ‘lists’ in Settings > Appearance > Lists ?
Hi,
Thanks to respondents advising how to do what I wanted to do! I do get it now. I hadn’t appreciated that what I was looking at was a “list”. But, in the first place, why is it necessary to change a load of settings which are already in place when “upgrading” software???
Thanks again to Gary and to Sunriseal!
Martin
It usually doesn’t change during upgrades. Not sure what version you upgraded from Martin, but it is possible that your previous version did not have a setting for the folder list row height, so after the upgrade, the new default setting was used.
When the version 8 beta was first released the default spacing was even larger than it is now, and I made a comment about it to the company. They reduced it a bit, but said that their aim was to “offer a nice and clean interface for default users” and that power users would be able to configure it as they wanted.
There was a promise of some tip about this in the startup splash screen, but I honestly don’t look at that, so can’t say if it is there.
I used to have nicely formatted compacted Folder Lists, but I am now unable to make the Folder List Row Height smaller than 18 pixels and my font size is 9, so there is now large spacing in my Folder Lists. Help! I have version 9.0.1708
18 is the minimum height. You can’t go lower than that. Sorry.
Has anything more been done on this or has anyone worked out a way to go less than 18pixels with 9pt font? I just upgraded my father to v9 and he has complained to me about the same thing. I have pointed him at the (fairly hidden) Settings (thank you for that screen grab @Gary) but as per other comments, surely the ability to keep your screen formatted as it was should be available.
One thought is to have defined settings for Compact, Normal, and Relaxed (or whatever) and from there have the ability to go into Settings to adjust more granularly. With me using my 3 screen setup all 1920x1200 at 100%, these defaults (even 18px height) probably wouldn’t be a problem, however it is way too spaced for those using a fairly low res on a laptop (e.g. 1366 x 768 at 125% like my 75 year old father).
Hi
I faced a similar behaviour. I have not changed anything, but the folder list has a huge spacing. See screenshot. I made a screenshot with the orignal spacing (since I had the behaviour once, and the next day, it was ok. However, it looks that it has changed permanentely). If you compare the left with the right, you see a huge difference in spacing, wheras on the right is what it is expected. As a sidenote, it looks like the same behaviour applies to the menu. Can it be a bug or somehow a system setting which overrides emclient settings?
Go to Settings > Appearance > Lists > Folder lists row height. Can set this to a minimum of 18 pixels
Just discovered others have pointed this out already. Sorry!
Thanks, it is (and was) already set to 18 pixels (left and right screenshot).
If you have Touch mode enabled, the spacing will be larger than the setting.
If you do, you will see the touch icon in the upper right. Just click on it to disable touch and the spacing will change.
That did the trick! Thank you Gary for this hint, I never had searched for this.
→ problem solved!
mooi
