Re: [Evolution] Beta 1 test

[Jeffrey Stedfast <fejj ximian com>]

On Tue, 2002-09-24 at 16:49, Jean-Michel Ardantz wrote:
> Hi,
> I have just installed the 1.2 beta 1 and I particularly appreciate the
> multi-languages spell checker.I have noticed some thinks that could
> perhaps be improved or that seems not working properly. May be some of
> them are already corrected in CVS.
>
>
> Mail
> - When i am not connected to Internet (but I am not on of line mode) i
> have a message box saying that Evolution could not retrieve mail with
> only one button "Close". May be we could have a second button "Work of
> line" in this message box to switch into the Of-Line mode. 

too complicated to do. it's a generic exception reporting system, it has
no idea why it failed it just know it failed and so throws up a dialog.

The back-end is what sets the exceptions, but it doesn't know anything
about "going offline" and wouldn't have any way of adding this button
anyway.

> - When receiving a mail with many attachments, the context menu of each
> of the attachments should have an option "Save all attachments". Then
> the user will be prompt to select a directory and all of th attachments 
> would be save in one operation.

this has been reported before

> - The advanced item in the search combo list is not always displaying
> the search dialog box.

this was fixed last night I think.

> Mail composer
> - Switching signature on the Mail Composer not working very well. Some
> signatures are not displaying.

fixed the day after 1.1.1 was released.

> - Script signature seems not working. For example "/usr/games/fortune"
> not displaying anything.

fixed yesterday

> - Strange but i can have only 70-80 characters per line in text mode
> even if the window if larger. Work fine in HTML mode. Is it the normal
> behavior?

yes, this is intended behaviour. the many mail related specifications
strongly urge that clients wrap at 72 characters to support older mail
clients that apparently use an ~80 byte buffer to read lines and also
for console clients that use an 80-character-wide screen.

Jeff

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Jeffrey Stedfast
Evolution Hacker - Ximian, Inc.
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