Enhancement: Messaging app, message text alignment
asked 2014-01-08 17:59:52 +0200
The Messaging app currently shows received SMS'es with right alignment. This makes multi-line messages hard to read, because not all lines start with the same left indentation. Also, the font size for received SMS'es is bigger than the one for sent SMS'es (which, I assume, is a bug).
XMPP messages are shown in a more traditional way, with left alignment and prefixed with the time, and sent / received messages are differentiated by color. This behavior is much better.
I would like to have configurable behavior, to be able to choose how I want to view the messages regardless of the type, and for the current SMS style the text should be aligned to left, even if it is still 'glued' to the right border.
The font size for received messages being bigger makes sense: you're more interested in what the other person has to say than in what you just said, so it's easier to read it.
I like the way sent messages appear at the left and received at the right, but I do agree that it would be a good idea to have an option available for people who want to have it the other way around.
nthn ( 2014-09-30 18:09:08 +0200 )editWe expect more alike Symbian messages settings and folders in message
Twinklestar1792 ( 2014-10-01 19:40:31 +0200 )editThe font size difference is not a bug and I like it; but I agree for left alignment for received messages and right for sent, as usual as all today messaging apps.
AliN ( 2015-04-25 16:18:47 +0200 )edit