Re: [Evolution] evolution 1.2 beta

[Dan Winship <danw ximian com>]

> fre 2002-09-20 klockan 15.20 skrev Not Zed:
> > alphanumeric keys now jump to matches in the column you're currently
> > sorting on.
>
> Which makes it pretty useless.. at least for me.
>
> I sort on Date and if evey date is Yesterday ##:##
> it doesnt mather how many times I press Y I could just press Down.

Yeah, the idea isn't that people are going to normally sort on a column 
where this is useful, it's that IF you want to quickly find a message 
with a given subject or from a particular user, you can sort by that 
column, type a few keys, and then sort back to your standard order.

This is how Outlook behaves, and in usability testing on 1.0, this is 
how every single ex-Outlook user that we tested tried to find messages 
when given a task like "find the message from bob" (where they were 
"supposed" to use the search bar). So we put it into 1.2 since we were 
only using three letter keys before, and one of them didn't make any 
sense except to Pine users anyway.

Yes, the current next/prev/toggle preview bindings totally suck, but 
that doesn't mean that the new behavior isn't useful or that they can't 
be fixed.

-- Dan