Re: [Evolution] Updates of Vfolders

[Rodd Clarkson <rodd redfishbluefish com au>]

> > Actually I wasn't that clear, so let me rephrase it:
> >
> > How about setting vfolder to update each time you select the vfolder
> > (including when you are in it), and then adding an option to *manually*
> > refresh the folder.  The refresh button could go in a number of places.
> > On the toolbar, in the context menus, and of course it's already
> > refreshes when you select the vfolder.
> >
> > Being able to manually refresh the folder while you are in it would
> > allow you to update the view if more mail has been downloaded, or if you
> > wan't to flush read messages from a vfolder that contains unread
> > messages.
> >
> > It might even be worth having an option dialog for this where users can
> > select times to automatically update vfolders.  Options could include:
> >
> > every time you enter the folder (defaults to true)
> > every time you select the folder (defaults to true)   ##These are
> > different and the second might only be an option if the first is true
> > every time you download new messages (defaults to false???)
> > every time you change your vfolder rules
> >
> > This way people could really config it to how they want it to work, but
> > at the same time you would start with a well behaved vfolder setup.
> >
> > mintSlice
>
> I'm happy with everything you've suggested above.  My only comment
> before was that it might be reasonable to also have one other option
> which is to refresh the contents of the vfolder each time you change the
> status of a message.
> So, for example, if you remove the important mark on a message in a
> vfolder which requires the important mark for message inclusiong, then
> that message disappears from the contents of the vfolder right then.
> See Jan Moren's message about how the contents might still show in the
> message content window like they do now for expunged messages.
> S.

Sounds great.  And by using an option dialog, people can have it work
the way they want, and still have a sensible default behavior.

mintSlice