RE: [Evolution] Evolutiuon 1.4 unusable :(

["Cabral, Carlson" <ccabral craworld com>]

Roland,

Set your preferences to "Inline" or "Quoted" reply instead of "As
Attachment". That was an easy one!

Regardinf the "unusability" of Evolution, it doesn't stop there: 

1 - No POP mail downloading for some servers (I will beat on this one to
death or until it's fixed)
2 - Another one I found out last night: when composing an e-mail message,
you can't simply drag and drop a file to attach to a message. All you you
get is the path where the file is. You have to click on the "Attach" icon on
the composer window and choose your file. Needless to say, this WORKED
before with Evo 1.2.x

Also, I am not sure you noticed, but Evo 1.4.1 is taking just as long to be
released as any proprietary (namely M$) "patch". And yes, I am using Outlook
to compose this message because at work I can't do anything else. At least,
it works foro the most part.

Cheers,

Carlson

-----Original Message-----
From: Roland Orre [mailto:orre bacon su se] 
Sent: June 26, 2003 10:56 AM
To: evolution lists ximian com
Subject: [Evolution] Evolutiuon 1.4 unusable :(


Fortunately I didn't install evolution 1.4 on my main system.

There are two issues which makes evolution 1.4 unusable,
both concerns the composer.

1) Emacs style editing keys in composer doesn't work.
   (for someone having used emacs for the last 23 years, this
    is VERY annoying).

2) When replying to mails, the whole message is considered one
   "chunk" in a way. I can't insert and remove text between the
   "> -lines" This makes replying to messages unusable.

example:
> in a reply message like this, you may have issue one
here I reply to issue one.

> and this is about issue two.
here I reply to issue two.

This is very basic and fundamental, and in evolution 1.4 I can't edit the
mails in the way I want. To be able to reply to a mail I have to copy it to
emacs anyway, where I can edit it, and then send it back.

A better idea then would maybe be to have the possibility to use emacsclient
for composing instead.

        Roland

PS. of course, as this is open source (GPL?, didn't check) I could start my
own fork of (r)evolution...

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