[arch-general] speaking of Thunderbird 3.X - great new thread summary view

[Nathan Wayde]

On 15/12/09 09:33, Ng Oon-Ee wrote:
> On Tue, 2009-12-15 at 09:25 +0000, Magnus Therning wrote:
>> 2009/12/15 Ng Oon-Ee<ngoonee at gmail.com>:
>>> On Tue, 2009-12-15 at 07:46 +0000, Nathan Wayde wrote:
>>>> On 15/12/09 07:40, Ng Oon-Ee wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> Hmm, it just shows ... for me for all messages.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>> top-left near the 'Subject' header, the button?/header with the icon
>>>> that looks like a lower-case t, to the left of the star header - click it.
>>>
>>> You mean the 'expand thread' triangle? That's not it, that just expands
>>> the thread to a view identical to in Thunderbird2. I'm unable to get a
>>> '3-4 line preview' view on any of my mails, as in the picture by the
>>> first poster in this thread.
>>
>> Unexpand the thread, then click on the first message, it should result
>> in that view.
>
> It does, but every line just shows like this:-
>
> Poster 1                               Date
>   ...
> Poster 2                               Date
>   ...
>
> And so on. I'm getting the correct view, what I'm not getting is the
> '3-4 lines' talked about.
>
>
Oh, sorry I misread...
It doesn't display '3-4' lines, it's the first sentence or so, you see 
3-4 lines because of the screen width.