Re: [Evolution] Comments on Evolution 1.2

[Not Zed <notzed ximian com>]

On Tue, 2002-11-19 at 07:11, Russell Stuart wrote:
> Last week I made the move from Outlook to Evolution 1.2. I thought I
> would give some feed back on things I am having difficulty adjusting
> to.
>
> - There is no way I have found to do the equivalent of "Shift-Delete"
>   in Outlook.  Shift-Delete deletes a message permanently, without
>   moving it the Trash folder.  AFAICT, in Evolution there is no way to
>   expunging a particular message.  The fastest way I have found is to
>   copy the message(s) concerned to a temporary folder, delete it, then
>   expunge that folder.  Messy.

I've certainly never seen this as a problem.

> - Shift-Ctrl-M is modal in Evolution, in Outlook it isn't.  This
>   means that in Outlook I can press Shift-Ctrl-M regardless of
>   where I am.  In Evolution it won't work if I am in a mail folder
>   (such as the Inbox), or if I am in the composer.  I have found
>   that having it modal in Evolution means I don't use it.  It is
>   easier to use the GUI because I don't have to ask myself "it this
>   going to work here?".

Dont even know what this is.  But that doesn't sound like a showstopper.

> - When reading mail the ',' and '.' rarely seem to work.  I have not
>   been able to find a pattern as to when they do and don't.  Also,
>   it would be nice if shortcuts like that appeared in the menu.  It
>   means you can learn about their existence without reading the help.
>   That is a seems to be an attribute of Microsoft products - you can
>   use them without referring to the help by just using the hints the
>   GUI gives you.

They were changed to [ and ].  They do show up in the menu as a
shortcut.

> - A minor thing - but in Outlook I grew accustomed to sitting down
>   in the morning and going though my mail leaving a couple for later
>   and deleting the rest.  When I got the to end the message window
>   would close, bringing a nice satisfying end to the morning ritual.
>   In Evolution it does not close, instead it displays previous
>   message - effectively reversing direction.  I find that jarring.

*shrug*

> - Read receipts (aka Disposition Notifications).  Obviously you guys
>   don't consider them important, this being the second major release
>   and they are still not there.  I do - enough to spend a pleasant
>   hour or so going through the source finding a way to turn them on
>   permanently.  I suspect a lot of others in corporate environments
>   like mine place the same importance on them I do.  Its not like its
>   hard.

There is no standard for implementing this.  It wouldn't be much use
adding it if most mailers dont support it and subseqeuntly it doesn't
work for most users.

> - When a Yes/No/Cancel confirmation dialogue box is displayed, I am
>   used to being able to press 'Y'/'N'/Escape.  There does not seem
>   to be any way to press 'Y'/'N', except by using the mouse.  (Maybe
>   this is a GTK thing?)  Anyway, I miss being able to use the
>   keyboard.

Thats gtk mostly.