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

[zucchi zedzone mmc com au]

> Questions:
>
>       - How to delete a folder(s)?

Use rm.  (so its not very elegant, but it is a valid & safe way to do it at
the moment).

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

Good question.  Why either needs separate focus is beyond me, it
makes it next to impossible to use.

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

When you reply to a mail that has an attachment, you can't quote any
of that (e.g. your mail).  So here i am using elm + vi instead
of evolution.

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

Debatable.

>       - 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.)

Basically impossible, as the vfolders do not know about selections,
the mail view does.  And the mail view can't talk to other ones/doesn't
even know about other ones.

>       - I would find it useful to be able to drag messages into VFolders. I
>       prefer VFolders to standard mail sorting (it allows messages that are to
>       me and a list to show up in my personal folder and the list folder, for
>       example.) Sometimes I get a message to a list (such as a course mailing
>       list) that I want in my personal folder so that it doesn't get lost. 
>       One way to implement this would be for a VFolder to have a field that
>       allows for a specific message. Another way would be to, upon dropping a
>       message into a VFolder, prompt the user for an addition to the VFolder
>       rule. (ed. this sorta breaks the vfolder concept... any ideas?)

The vfolders already search "messages matching the user search, or
messages with a specific (per vfolder) flag set".  The append message thing in
vee-folder.c could presumably just add this flag.

The problem is it could be a bit confusing for the user, as for e.g.
if you delete the message it really gets deleted everywhere, etc.

>       - Add an "all folders" option for virtual folders so there is no need to
>       individually add all my folders for something like an "Important Mail"
>       virtual folder (now that we can mark them as such).

This should be 'operate on all folders or selected'.  The folder list
might change for example.

> VFolders:
>
>       - Depending on which folder/mbox, different views (ie. flat vs.
>       threaded) should be avaliable.

What do you mean?  Save the view type for each folder?

>       - View all headers.

There now, as 'view source' (which imho is not a very nice way
to do it as it changes the global view to work like that).

>       - Indicator as to whether the focus is on a message in the message list
>       or on the message itself. (ed. there are indicators right now, but not
>       proly explicit enough)

Hm, wasn't this mentioned above?

Its impossible to use without a mouse, even for a simple task like reading
messages.  Yuck.

>       - I would suggest `barrowing'' Outlook Express's pop-up that it uses
>       when the user does an explicit mail check by clicking on the get mail
>       button.

Which is?

>       - 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.

Well, it already does this (and always has).  Each message is indexed
immediately upon being added to a folder, and never again.  The next
release I think will have noticable performance improvements
in that area.

> Date:
>
>       - I would find it useful to have a different date format. As it is the
>       date field needs to be at least 65 pixels wide in order to see the full
>       day.
>
>       - Rounding the time to the minute (at least) for clarity.

Well that would come about if you could configure it.

 Z