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

[Ng Oon-Ee]

On Tue, 2009-12-15 at 19:20 +0000, Nathan Wayde wrote:
> 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...
Not a problem
> It doesn't display '3-4' lines, it's the first sentence or so, you see 
> 3-4 lines because of the screen width.
I don't even get any sentences, just the "..." (literally I see 3 dots
per message) as mentioned above. Looks like I'm alone on this...