Re: [Evolution] GUI question: clearing Inbox messages

[Patrick O'Callaghan <poc usb ve>]

On Wed, 2010-09-01 at 12:26 +0100, David Woodhouse wrote:
> On Tue, 2010-08-31 at 21:06 +0200, Karsten BrÃckelmann wrote:
> > "Disappeared". As others already mentioned, be sure there is no search
> > active, menu Search / Clear, and the quicksearch bar says "All
> > Messages" are shown.
>
> That's not good enough. Sometimes a search is active even though it
> doesn't *look* like it is. There's a bug filed for this somewhere; it's
> been doing it for years.
>
> I often find I have to do a new search and then cancel it, and then all
> my messages come back.

If a search is active the search box should show a different background
colour. This was introduced to catch the occasional "search for space"
typo (I know because it was my idea :-). Do you mean this isn't working
properly?

poc