Re: [Evolution] Issues with evolution-devel from evolution-stable

[Not Zed <notzed ximian com>]

On Mon, 2002-07-15 at 13:57, Eric Lambart wrote:
> On Sun, 2002-07-14 at 12:43, Jeffrey Stedfast wrote:
> > On Sun, 2002-07-14 at 03:33, proXy wrote:
> > > I switched over to evolution-devel today, but there are a few things
> > > that I have noticed and am finding a little strange.
> > > What I am interested in is whether or not these issues are bugs,
> > > configurable features or now removed.
> > >
> > > 1) N no longer seems to work as go to Next message
> >
> > this was removed because it conflicted with a new feature to use
> > auto-completion for jumping to messages (similar to what Outlook does).
> >
> > Not sure I like it either, but it's what people wanted.
>
> It's sick and wrong.  Period and comma to move between messages?  Gak!

Not much use complaining here - Jeff and I at least (the mail
developers) fully agree with this assessment.

> > *shrug* worked for me last I tried. At home here I have no contacts in
> > my addressbook so I can't really test this now.
>
> Address autocompletion doesn't work for me, either (1.1.0.99, 6-25
> snap); it sometimes pops down a list, but I have to manually cursor down

Uh, this is how it has *always* worked for me?

> to select one.  And nicknames are totally broken; I can no longer type a
> message to "kat" and hit tab a few times to start the message; I have to
> scroll through a bunch of names and addresses that start with "Kat"
> before I find it.

what hapens if you just hit return/tab anyway?  it should just close the
expansion box and use 'kat'.

> In other news, I'm really glad to see message notification partly
> implemented, though playing sounds (the only type of notification I
> tried) doesn't work at all for me.  No noise, no error or debug message
> in the shell.
>
> Is it hard-coded to use ESD or something?  

Probably use gnome_play_sound or something, so it depends on having
gnome with sound compiled in, which uses esd by default afaik ...

> I at least managed to implement it as a filter, running the shell
> command "play file.wav".

Yeah that works too.  if it runs it every message, there's a way around
that as well.