Re: [Evolution] Some usabilty issues and bugs....

[Carl Nygard <cjnygard fast net>]

On 20 Mar 2001 09:27:34 -0800, Michael Morrison wrote:
> Howdy folks,
>
>
>
> Great job so far.  I can almost make evolution my mail program of
> choice.
> There is a couple of problems:
>
>
> Distribution:                  Red Hat Linux
> Operating System:              Linux
> Distribution Version:          Red Hat Linux release 6.2 (Zoot)
>
> Operating System Version:      #2 Fri Mar 9 16:08:20 PST 2001
> Operating System Release:      2.4.0
> Processor Type:                i686
> System Status:                 8:43am  up 10 days, 16:32,  2 users,
> load average: 1.97, 1.96, 2.04
>
> Evolution version: 0.9
>
>
> Some Usability issues.
>
> 1. When a message is deleted, move it from Inbox to Trash then go to the
>    next message automagically.  The current action of crossing out the
>    text in the message list is a pain if you get a large number of mails
>    every day.
>
> 2. I generally do not send HTML mail.  But if someone sends me an HTML
> mail
>    and I reply to it, I would like the reply to be in HTML.  Maybe this
>    could be a configurable option.  So if I reply to a text message,
> send
>    the reply in text.  If I get an HTML message, reply in HTML.
>    Settings/Mail Configuration/Other/Send HTML Mail by Default check box
>    should only apply to new messages.

On a related note, how can you get the composer window to be a plain
text editor window, without the Normal/HeaderN/Pre styles and constant
width text?

> 3. If someone sends an HTML mail and I reply, but have not checked the
>    Settings/Mail Configuration/Other/Send HTML Mail by Default.
>    then the text in the reply message is all on one line (if no explicit
> line
>    breaks in the original).  How about doing an automatic line break on
> long
>    lines.
>
> 3. In the "Evolution Account Editor" Advanced tab:  The automatic mail
> check
>    toggles don't stick - maybe they just aren't implemented yet?

Upcoming release, right now they are GUI-ized, but nothing is attached
behind.

> 4. When you hit the 'Get Mail' button I hate having to click the OK
> button
>    on the dialog that comes up labled "Send & Receive mail"
>    I don't see why there even needs to be a dialog displayed unless
> there
>    is an error.  Better yet, make the automatic mail getter work!

Going away in upcoming release.