Re: [Evolution] Evolution 1.3.92 on SuSE 8.2

[Ralph Sanford <rsanford telusplanet net>]

On Sun, 2003-06-01 at 08:41, guenther wrote:
> > - fonts are MUCH CLEANER. 
> >
> > - the overall visual display is a little cleaner with many small
> > improvements.
>
> yep, yep :-)
>
>
> > - Calendar appears to be non-functioning.  This is a big downer.  When I
> > click on Summary my upcoming appointments are shown, but when I click on
> > Calendar (day, week or month) there is nothing shown.  Is something
> > missing in the usr-local-bin version?
>
> Seems to be a remaining issue from the 1.3.3 beta version. Does that
> solve this issue?
>
> The slider in the Calendar view just is set wrong, the Tasks take up all
> the space. Just move the pane divider from the left and you will get
> your calendar back.
>
>
> > - Contacts has an almost big improvement in the handling of web pages
> > and then a corresponding glitch.  Contacts used to merely record the web
> > pages but to go to a web page you would need to copy the web address to
> > your browser.  With Evo 1.3.92 there is a button next to the web address
> > in the contact editor that if clicked brings up Moz with the web page. 
> > This is a nice feature, the problem is that none of the web pages that I
> > had recorded in Evo 1.2.4 have been saved to Evo 1.3.92. Further, if a
> > manually add a web address in the contact editor and then save and close
> > the new contact information the web is not saved in the contact editor.
> >
> > - in Contact information I had extensively modified the Categories to be
> > able to sort my contacts on such things as
> > my contacts
> > my wife's contacts
> > company contacts
> > company shareholders
> > company suppliers
> > etc.
> > these categories are lost on the upgrade from 1.2.4
>
> For me, only the contact list was reset to default values. After I
> deleted all unwanted Categories (actually, all of them ;-) and
> re-created my custom ones, all Contacts magically had their according
> Category assigned back.
>
>
> > - the keyboard shortcut that I use the most in reading email is no
> > longer working.  The shortcut is that new mail is sorted as most recent
> > at the bottom and then when I read mail I can either type "]" which
> > keeps the email that was read and then brings up the next unread email
> > OR I would click "delete" and the read email was deleted and the next
> > unread email is viewed. For un-kept email the second option allowed me
> > to do 2 actions with 1 keystroke (delete and view next message). This no
> > longer works with 1.3.92.
>
> Do you say, deleting a mail does not proceed to the next mail? Does for
> me, as it always did.
>
> To go to the next unread mail, just type '.' (for previous ','). For me,
> both (,. and []) works.
>
>
> caveat: Mandrake 9.1, Evolution 1.3.92 (Ximian), so YMMV
>
> ...guenther
>
>  


To both Guenther and Matthew,

I used apt to install Evolution 1.3.92 from the usr-local-bin site on my
repository list.

Calendar - I did not try changing the pane size and perhaps that was the
only issue.  I can not test it now as I reverted back to 1.2.4.  A
Calendar page sizing issue would explain why appointments were still
visible in the Summary page but not on the Calendar page.  The "add a
task" section which is normally small was all that was visible on the
Calendar page.

Contacts (categories) - in 1.3.92 the original default category list was
all that was visible.  I did add one of my categories to the 1.3.92 list
and it did work for the contacts.  As per Guenther's comment I could
have deleted all the default categories and re-added mine.  I really
think the update should have retained my categories rather than using
the default.  BTW the categories were still there.  When I removed
1.3.92 and re-installed 1.2.4 all of my categories were still there and
the default categories were not shown.  So Evo 1.3.92 did not overwrite
or lose my categories it just ignored them. 

Contacts (web pages) - almost exactly as described by Matthew.  I think
this is a 1.3.92 contact editor viewing issue, because once again when I
reverted back to 1.2.4 the web pages that were originally in my contact
list showed up, even though they appeared to not exist in 1.3.92.

Email (delete key) - while it works for both of you, it did not work
here.  If I viewed a message and then clicked on delete, the message I
was viewing would become blank and the next message would not appear. 
When I say blank, I mean that the I had a window frame only and all the
inside of the window frame was blank (white).  Waiting for a couple of
minutes did not help.  The message I had deleted was deleted but the
next message never appeared.  Closing the blank window I could still use
the other navigation keys ( ] [ . or , ) to view the various emails, but
I could not delete and view the next message with a single key stroke.

Based on your respective comments and my very limited experience I would
offer the following comments:

Calendar - probably just a sizing issue on my setup

Contacts - I suspect that the contact editor for all of us does not
properly use the information that is available.  Matthew could not get
1.3.92 to show the web pages, Guenther appeared to lose his categories,
and I had both of these issues except that upon return to 1.2.4 all the
data was still there.

Email (delete key) - works for both of you and not for me ? ? ? 
Hopefully on the next re-install attempt it will work for me.  This was
actually the issue that made me revert back to 1.2.4.  The other issues
I could have temporarily worked around in order to get the nice new
1.3.92, but I probably delete 200 - 300 emails a day and without a
single step method this is too onerous.

Thanks for your comments.

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