Greenby Roundcube version

[#1]

It's been updated to version 1.7.6!

But now there's only one interface skin and it's the awful one. A three pane view on a small screen is impossible to use, not to mention the other weird design elements. I like to just see my inbox without a mail preview and be actually able to read the whole email subject.

[#2]

I have just logged onto greenby tues at 5-45am

all my roundcube settings have changed and I dont have an option to change them

there uesed to be a choice of 3 styles of settings in interface

I always use the basic setting same as used for years with plusnet

I suppose someones been fiddling will wait and see if my settings return

[#3]

The "classic" and "larry" skins were dropped from the distribution from RoundCube 1.6.2 onwards - however it is easy to install them manually after RoundCube is installed.

Of course, Greenby would have to do that - which might not be so easy after all. 

[#4]

@RPMozley 

"It's been updated to version 1.7.6!

But now there's only one interface skin and it's the awful one. A three pane view on a small screen is impossible to use, not to mention the other weird design elements. I like to just see my inbox without a mail preview and be actually able to read the whole email subject."

I disagree! I have always used the current skin (Interface skin 'Elastic' by Aleksander Macnniak), the default, since the transfer to Greenby. It works well on a mobile phone as well as the desktop. I can't see a problem with reading the subject in the mail view pane (on a PC) - also, you can choose 'Open in new window' from Options if you want to use the entire screen to see an email.

[#5]

I really like the CLASSIC view its what i had with Plusnet for years

I raised a ticket about the change of the interface to one i didnt want , but the bot told me

to select the one i wanted from the versions in interface settings ?

I replied that there was no selections to select anymore, got reply I would be contacted  ( dumped )

I am quite concerned that this company Greenby is suddenly going to go down the pan ?

and leave me in a terrible mess. Would probly have been better for Plusnet to say we are closing email

and you have 2 years to make new arrangements etc, offer some compensation off broadband bill,

maybe its time to look about for a decent service.

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[#6]

@pvmb There’s nothing wrong with disagreeing but it doesn’t change the fact that the option to remove the preview pane is totally gone. It’s stuck on one view and one view only (dictator style - maybe I should have gone for trump style but he’s not the only one in the world). Also it’s many extra clicks just to select an email to simply mark as spam and it’s a security risk just opening the email so people really shouldn’t be clicking on it directly in the list.

Actually the current default skin is called ‘larry’ , the elastic one does have the option to remove email viewing pane but that’s not available anymore. There may be incompatibility issues with other skins on version 1.7.x , more research is needed to find out the situation.

[#7]

... @RPMozley 

I'm not understanding this at all. The UI I see looks just the same as the original Greenby one, which is/was the Greenby default. For me, it hasn't changed. I know there were previously alternative skins, which I once looked at but never actually used, and these are now gone. But the current (default) skin is shown as "Elastic". Which it is! I see no single viewing pane, it has three variable size panes which it always had and still does. As I said previously you still have the option to 'Open in new window' and see the email in a second, full browser window (on a PC).

Obviously it formats differently on a phone - is this the issue?

I see:

Roundcube Webmail 1.7.6
Copyright © The Roundcube Dev Team
This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
Some exceptions for skins & plugins apply.
Interface skin
Elastic
by Aleksander Machniak
Licence: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike

Installed plugins
Plugin                   Version     Licence   Source
archive                  3.5         GPL-3.0+ 
carddav                  v5.1.1      GPL-2.0   Download
contextmenu              3.3.1       GPL-3.0+  Download
filesystem_attachments   1.0         GPL-3.0+ 
identity-transfer        1.0.0       GPL-3.0   Download
jqueryui                 1.13.2      GPL-3.0+ 
managesieve              9.6         GPL-3.0+ 
markasjunk               2.0         GPL-3.0+ 
newmail_notifier         0.8         GPL-3.0+ 
password                 5.5         GPL-3.0+ 
twofactor_gauthenticator 2.0.0       MIT       Download
zipdownload              3.6 GPL-3.0+

[#8]

Examples of "Larry" and "Elastic" Roundcube skins are shown on here. Greenby is definitely "Elastic".

https://www.claudiokuenzler.com/blog/981/upgrading-roundcube-1.3-to-1.4-testing-new-elastic-skin

[#9]

Well that’s strange, I'm pretty sure it said larry as the skin last night when looking at the version number. It could be a remnant of the previous version where I chose the different skin. Why it wouldn’t show the current skin name is bizarre.

Anyway, forget the confusion about the name, the default skin still doesn’t have the option to remove the email view. That is certain.

[#10]

If you login to Plusnet you'll see that we've all been using the Classic skin for years quite happily.
At the weekend I made Greenby's effort identical to Plusnet's by using settings and now they've wiped out all my hard work!
I don't get Elastic - senders and headings in the same column! Really?!