Re: [Evolution-hackers] New Menu Layout

[Lee Revell <rlrevell joe-job com>]

On Thu, 2005-06-30 at 12:29 +0800, Not Zed wrote:
> > > 
> > > I should file a bug to get back a feature that I've counted on since day
> > > one, and that was apparently removed intentionally?  Why can't you just
> > > put back the hide/unhide messages feature?
> > 
> > The new menu items are still buggy.  They seemed to work for a while,
> > but now the 2430 messages seem to be permanently hidden.  Neither
> > 'View->Show Messages->All' nor 'View->Show Messages->Unread' do
> > anything.  Even restarting Evolution does not help.
> 
> File a bug (when its up again i guess) and assign it to dobey - by
> committing the patches he implicitly agreed to 'taking responsibility'
> for the changes that I gave as a condition of him committing them.
> 

OK.

> > What exactly was the problem with the old behavior again?
> 
> Technically it was a bit messy, but it did work afterall.  But mainly
> there were some usability issues that people tended not to get at first.
> Although if they used it a couple of times they picked it up pretty
> easily.  Strange that, expecting human curiosity and self-learning in
> this modern age ...
> 

As a matter of fact the new behavior is a big usability problem, even
once you get used to it.

I often handle a folder with hundreds of unread messages by reading a
few dozen in order, with threaded view.  Then I would "Hide Read
Messages" and the tree would refresh to show only the unread messages,
two mouse clicks total.

Now, the same action requires me to do "View -> Show Messages -> All",
"View -> Show Messages -> Unread" - six mouse clicks.

This is major usability regression.

Lee