Re: [Evolution] Mail list display

[Dan Hensley <dan hensley attbi com>]

On Fri, 2002-08-23 at 10:17, Peter Williams wrote:
> On Fri, 2002-08-23 at 11:42, Dan Hensley wrote:
> > This is one of the reasons I really want the ability to see the name and
> > e-mail address in the To: field when I compose a message, when I type in
> > an address that's in my addressbook.  I know it's been discussed in the
> > past, and for some strange reason the design decision was to hide the
> > e-mail address.  Hopefully CVS Head has this capability.  I _really_
> > hope it's in 1.2...  Or at least have a tooltip that shows up when the
> > cursor is over a particular name.
> >
> > Dan
>
> I don't see why this is really a problem... if there's any ambiguity,
> you have to choose using the completion dropdown, which shows you the
> email addresses. So you should always know what email address is behind
> the name... well, if you're editing a saved draft, I guess one could
> well forget which address it was, but really how often is that an issue?

I prefer the way Mozilla shows it.  Sure I can see the e-mail address
when I first type it in and select it from the pulldown, but I want to
see it after I'm done.  I want an easy way to double-check that the
e-mail addresses (NOT just the names) are what I want before sending. 
Right now I can right-click on every single one to make sure, but that's
horribly inefficient.

I know I'm not the only one who wants this behavior.  I seem to recall
that when this was last discussed (quite a while ago), some of the
Ximian developers wanted what I described as well, but the decision from
above was what is currently implemented.  Probably to make it more like
Outlook.

At least, _please_ make it a configurable option.  Some want it one way,
others want it the other.

Dan



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