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

[Gregory Leblanc <gleblanc cu-portland edu>]

> Hello Evolution lovers!
>
> A little before Thanksgiving, Miguel contacted me to help him gather a
> list
> of feature requests for upcoming 0.7 release. After doing some Evolution
> mail searching action (vfolders are NICE), a little mail archive reading
> and
> a few bugzilla searches, this is what I got. I sorted the requests in a
> (hopefully) useful fashion, but suggestions for how the summary should
> be
> formated are most welcome.


ok, I'm going to be mean and nasty while I lay into this list, so don't
take it personally.

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

Look for the blinking cursor?

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

As Dan said, use the GtkHTML capplet to change this.  But it just annoys
me that this even made it in as a bug.

>       - 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?)

Drag and drop doesn't work anywhere that I've tried it just yet, so I
assume that the infrastructure isn't finished.

>       - Wheelmouse navigation

What?  Wheel mouse works fine for me, can you be just a wee bit more
specific?

>       - More options in the context menu for folders.

Can you give some specifics of what's missing?


>       - Ala Outlook, It would be very helpful to mark folders as having
unread
>       contents. Outlook makes the folder bold with the number of unread
>       messages in parenthesis. (ed. i think this is fixed in CVS already)

Yep, this is done is CVS.

>       - Have first unread email message to be in the center of the list
(ala
>       Outlook)

Outlook 2000 doesn't do this, I don't remember earlier
versions.  Outlook lists from the "top" of the folder.  Evolution
already does a better job at this than Outlook has ever done, I don't
think any changes are called for along these lines.

>       - View all headers.

Done in CVS.

>       - An expand/collapse all threads option, (suggestion: the right-click
>       menu for clicking on the [+] or [-] sign.)

I'd like to see threading support that looks a lot like the Agent
newsreader on Win32.  I haven't figured out how/if evolution's threading
is helpful yet.

>       - A `properties'' dialog on each message ala Outlook.

What's in this "properties" dialog?  BTW, Outlook doesn't have a
"properties" option on each message.  

>       - 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.

But especially problematic when somebody on a fast connection and a slow
computer gets a lot of mail.

>       - 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.

Where at?  In the message list?  In the calendar?

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

I know this has been requested a lot, but I haven't seen it work
yet.  (I can't get to my CVS build from here)

>       - Is the evolution calendar going to support calendar servers through
>       CAP? 

I would think so, as I don't know of another way to support shared
calendars using standards.  However, IANAH, so it's hard to say.  

    Greg