[PATCH 00/17] nmbug-status: Python-3-compabitility and general refactoring

[Tomi Ollila]

On Sat, Feb 08 2014, "W. Trevor King" <wking at tremily.us> wrote:

> On Sat, Feb 08, 2014 at 08:29:41PM +0200, Tomi Ollila wrote:
>> On Sat, Feb 08 2014, W. Trevor King wrote:
>> > On Sat, Feb 08, 2014 at 09:54:28AM -0400, David Bremner wrote:
>> >> 
>> >> yeah, the colour scheme is not my favourite. For the sake of being
>> >> semi-constructive, I attach an alternative suggestion #ffd96e and
>> >> #bce.
>> >
>> > Works for me.
>> 
>> I'm fine with that too.
>
> Updated in my example and nmbug-status-python3 branch.
>
>> >> More importantly some of the threads are run together: e.g. 
>> >> 
>> >> id:"4eddf2b1.4288980a.0b74.5557 at mx.google.com" and
>> >> id:"E1RYMYd-0003wu-Ea at thinkbox.jade-hamburg.de"
>> >
>> > Both of those messages are part of the same thread
>> > (thread:000000000000eaab on my box, but I doubt thread IDs are
>> > portable), so I don't add a thread-separating space between them.
>> > Would you like more message-separating space even between messages
>> > in the same thread?
>> 
>> …
>> 
>> I think the more space does not fix anything but it might help
>> regognizing message boundaries a bit (and thus would be a nice
>> feature).
>
> Added to my example and nmbug-status-python3 branch.  I'm using CSS
> for this new spacing, so non-CSS browsers (e.g. w3m) won't render the
> inter-message spacing.  I think the colored-link (second message row)
> vs. default id (first message row) makes inter-message separation
> clear enough in that case.

The 2 0.5em:s adds up to 1em between messages and that IMHO makes the
messages be too far apart from each other. I changed the padding-top
and padding-bottom values to 0.25em which IMHO is better...

> Cheers,
> Trevor

Tomi