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

[Jeffrey Stedfast <fejj ximian com>]

On Mon, 2002-07-15 at 00:27, 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!

yea, I don't like it either... but other mailers use this convention
also so maybe it's not all that bad? N and P are pretty Netscape-ish.

[snip]
> > > 3) Autocompletion doesn't seem to be working, although I can view my
> > > contact list (and use the To: button). Contacts is set as an
> > > Autocomplete folder.
> >
> > *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
> 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.

*shrug* still works for me...

> 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?  

it uses gnome_sound_play() (which, I believe, uses ESD)

Jeff

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Jeffrey Stedfast
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