Re: [Evolution] Updates of Vfolders



On 18 Jan 2001 11:32:53 +1100, Rodd Clarkson wrote:
On 17 Jan 2001 16:20:02 -0800, Scott Dixon wrote:
On 17 Jan 2001 19:07:25 -0500, JP Rosevear wrote:
On 17 Jan 2001 11:29:43 -0800, Scott Dixon wrote:
In the 2001011407 nightly update, I set up a Vfolder which filters on
status isnot read.  This collects together the unread messages from
various folders as it should.  However, after these messages are read,
they remain in the Vfolder.  Only when Evo is restarted are the contents
of this Vfolder correctly updated.  It seems like the contents of the
folder should be updated when the status of a message changes.

Not quite as simple as that because you won't have time to read the
actual message as it blinks out of the folder :-).  

Yeah, I thought of that as well.  I didn't think of a real clean
solution to that.  Perhaps there needs to be a menu item to refresh the
vFolder contents or perhaps the VFolder contents should be automatically
refreshed every time you visit the folder.  Or at least the message you
are currently reading shouldn't go away due to filters!  Outlook has a
view for unread messages and I think they disappear as soon as you move
to the next message.  I'll have to check next time I run Outlook.


Wouldn't it make sense for the vfolders to update each time the mail is
checked?  This would keep them nicely in-sync without the problem
mentioned above.  Of course this could be a problem if you have
evolution set to automatically check mail every minute (which I don't
think you can do yet can you?).

That is a good time to refresh the vfolders but I think they need to be kept in better sync than that.

Suppose, for example, you wanted to have a vfolder for all your messages
marked important (!).  You might go through other folders and mark
various messages important and then visit the Important vfolder
expecting to find them all there to be dealt with.  But they wouldn't
appear until the next mail check, which is probably not what most people
would expect.  I think you have to check the filters for a vfolder when
you enter it so that you see the correct contents.  It would be OK with
me if the contents didn't get continually updated while I was in the
vfolder (thus taking care of the issue of messages blinking out of view
as they were read).  But my expectation is that when I enter a folder,
it has up to date contents.  It would be nice if the folder stayed up to
date while you were in it, but I could live without that.
Scott


 





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