Re: [Evolution] Praise and a few problems

["Jeffrey Stedfast" <fejj helixcode com>]

[some comments below]

----- Original Message -----
From: "Janne" <jan moren lucs lu se>
To: <evolution helixcode com>
Sent: Saturday, December 23, 2000 7:59 AM
Subject: [Evolution] Praise and a few problems


> To begin, I really like what Evolution has become -- great work! I have
> switched to Evolution from Pine a couple days ago.
>
> A few problems have cropped up though (I think you are aware of most of
> these, but just to reiterate them):
>
> 1) The cursor seems to wander off on its own to the right. As a previous
> post on the list stated, this seems to be dependent on the chosen
> typeface, and possibly on the version of X used. However, no other GTK
> or GNOME apps seem to suffer from the problem.

Probably because no other GNOME apps use the GtkHTML editor - however, I do
agree that this needs to be looked into a fixed if at all possible.

> 2) The last read mail is displayed for a given folder -- even when that
> mail has been deleted and expunged. Slightly confusing; a better
> strategy is to show no mail at all, I think.

I think that this is actually a good thing (except that when we go and hide
mails marked as deleted, then we should select the next message or
whatever).

> 3) The contact book allows for several mail adresses for a given person.
> When trying to mail them, however, there seems to be no way to choose
> any mail adress other than their primary one.
>
> 4) Also in the contact manager, sometimes the manager refuses to
> acknowledge the input of more than one mail adress. It seems to happen
> when I don't first explicitly choose 'primary mail adress' before
> entering the primary mail adress. Then, when entering secondary
> adresses, they disappear and do not show up in the contact list.
>
> 5) Nitpicking territory, but: Evolution does not remember window and
> pane sizes, relative sizes of the fields in the mail list pane or the
> choice to use small icons on the shortcut list

It doesn't remember window or pane sizes, but it *does* remember list column
sizes. Don't worry, it will remember all these sizes eventually, it's just
not a high priority compared to other things that need to get done (plus
it's not a very hard thing to do I'm sure).

> Wish list:
>
> 1) It would be nice to have a filter action that pipes the chosen mail
> through an external program (so we can use procmailfilters or
> specialized mail filters).

You can use procmail now, no need to modify evolution filters. You can just
use fetchmail/procmail to download mail rather than using Evolution to
download/filter mail. It sure beats making the internal filter code more
complicated. Besides, making a gui for piping stuff to an external program
would be very difficult to do.

> 2) A dialogue to set the font and fontsize for mail list , mail view and
> mail compose windows is all but necessary; the default size is too small
> for people with impaired vision. I know that their size is dependent on
> the theme used, but with a comfortable size for the theme, the text in
> the mails is just too small.

I'll agree with that...

> 3) I'd like to have an option to remove the mail viewing pane
> altogether, and a click on a mail would immediately pop up a separate
> reading window.

You can just shrink the pane to nothingness if ya want, that's the easy way
;-)

Jeff