evolution default view?

[NoOp]

Matt Price wrote:
> On Thu, 2007-02-08 at 16:32 -0800, NoOp wrote:
>> Matt Price wrote:
>> > On Thu, 2007-02-08 at 12:13 -0800, NoOp wrote:
>> >> Matt Price wrote:
>> >> > gaha, can anyone remind me of how to set the default view in evolution
>> >> > email?  I have somehow set the default to "widescreen" which I hate; and
>> >> > every time I make a new folder or move an old one the view gets reset to
>> >> > widescreen.  totally annoying!  anything I can do?  thanks,
>> >> > 
>> >> > matt
>> >> > 
>> >> > 
>> >> 
>> >> No clue. But you might try here:
>> >> http://www.gnome.org/projects/evolution/
>> >> 
>> > well, if anyone finds anything there I'll be grateful.  but I've been up
>> > and down on that site and in any case the docs seem to cover 2.6, rather
>> > out of date...
>> > 
>> 
>> Are you by chance referring to the view with no sidebar? If so,
>> View|Sidebar checked takes care of that. If not, is it possible to take
>> a screenshot and post someplace (like imageshack etc)?
>> I'm curious because a customer has just asked to use Evolution and so I
>> am testing for them now.
> 
> It's not the preview pane, but the style in which the message list is
> displayed.  you can set it by hand in view --> Current View , but for
> some reason the default has been set to "for wide screen".  I'm pretty
> surethe fault is mine, but I can't remember how I did it (some while
> ago).  I'm reorganizing my mail right now so it's particularly
> irritating .
> 
> image is at:
> http://www.derailleur.org/evoscrnshot.png
> 
> thx,
> matt


I assume that you are trying to get back to this default view?
http://img329.imageshack.us/img329/3787/evo261xu7.png
[that is from a never used 2.6.1]

Perhaps you installed a patch as mention here?
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=262742

Also see:
http://blogs.gnome.org/view/sragavan/2006/06/01/0