Re: [Evolution] Preview Question

[Tom <evolution frenchpeoplesuck com>]

When it firs happened I figured it was just a bug in the snap shot so I
never checked the list.

I am surprised they took it out..they should at least make it an option.

It was very usefull. I get a lot of junk email, and being able to select
them all while previewing them is nice.



On Thu, 2001-08-23 at 14:26, Eric Lambart wrote:
> On Thu, 2001-08-23 at 08:11, Tom wrote:
> > A few snapshots ago, I lost the ability to select multiple messages and
> > have each one show up in the preview window. I thought maybe it was
> > turned into a configurable option, but I have not found it anywhere.
>
> This was briefly discussed and the good folks at Ximian decided to do
> this on purpose, having seen no reason why the last-selected-message
> should be shown in the preview window (this discussion may have taken
> place in a bug report)... which of course slows things down a bit for
> the preview window to be drawn.
>
> I didn't object at the time, and I wish I had--because I found this
> behaviour to be very useful as I'm marking multiple messages for
> deletion (particularly with something like a mailing list where I want
> to delete most of the messages whose subjects are not interesting to me,
> but while I've got, say, 10 messages selected, I see something that
> looks vaguely interesting, so I'd like to preview it before deleting it.
> > Does anyone else notice this?
>
> Yes, but it would seem that you and I are the only ones.
>
> FWIW, I think that the biggest problem with previewing the last message
> selected would occur when selecting via keyboard, because each
> Shift-DownArrow would cause the preview window to be redrawn.  So I
> would suggest requring 500ms to elapse before previewing the message;
> this would allow the user to rapidly select msgs with the keyboard and
> then pause and preview one.
>
> --Eric
>
>
>
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