[Evolution] Re: [Evolution-hackers] Weekly Feature Request Summary (12/6)

[Dan Winship <danw helixcode com>]

(Hm... we really need to reorganize the evolution lists so that
evolution/evolution-hackers cross-postings aren't needed...)

Anyway, this looks cool... some comments.

> I'm currently using the stable 0.6 release and will try to get CVS evolution
> running soon.

We will be providing nightly snapshot RPM/deb releases Real Soon Now. (This
week?) So anyone having problems compiling from CVS may want to just
give up and wait for those.

>       - How to delete a folder(s)?

You can't currently.

>       - How do i know which widget has focus? (ed. etable or message body)

Focus in the mailer is just all bad. This will be fixed eventually.

>       - When you reply to a mail in Evolution, to original message is placed
>       as an attachment. (ed. i think it's solved recently...)

I don't know what this means. Maybe they meant "forward", in which
case it's not a bug.

>       - Home/End should move the cursor at the beggining/end of the line ,
>       *not* of the message.

This is not a bug. The default composer keybindings are "Emacs-like",
and that's how Emacs behaves. If people want Windows-like or custom
bindings, they can do that in the HTML capplet.

>       to do that, then having to go delete the VFolder to clean up. (ed. i
>       think 0.6's 'full search' solves this problem)

It does.

>       - If a message is selected in one folder, it should be selected in any
>       VFolder it appears in. This would aide in doing unusual multi-selections
>       (i.e. selecting all the messages from someone except for those to some
>       list... that sort of thing.)

Hm... that would be really weird. Don't think that's going to happen.
The "full search" dialog lets you do these sorts of things anyway.

>       - Double clicking on a folder with a [+] next to it should expand the
>       folder. (At least that would be consistent)

How would that be consistent? The folder tree and the message list
would then behave differently (since double-click on a message opens
it in a new window).

I think the "consistent" behavior would be to open a new view with the
given folder, but I'm not sure that's totally useful (particularly
given that this would result in the same folder being selected in both
windows).

>       - No need for the `no new messages on foo bar com'' pop-up when a server
>       doesn't have new messages.

Already gone.

>       - Re-index mail continuously as it arrives rather than just after
>       everything has been downloaded. This would be especially helpful when
>       someone with a slow connection receives a lot of mail.

Don't say "index". No two people ever seem to mean the same thing by
it. Specify the exact behavior you're talking about.

>       - How do I add individual groups to my newsserver entry?

Settings -> Manage Subscriptions

>       - Is it possible to add the sender of an e-mail to the Contacts - more
>       or less automatically?

Not yet.

-- Dan