RE: [Evolution] Evolutiuon 1.4 unusable :(

[Jeffrey Stedfast <fejj ximian com>]

On Thu, 2003-06-26 at 11:06, Cabral, Carlson wrote:
> 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)

maybe you should be bugging your POP provider more? afterall, this is
clearly a server bug, tho we *have* worked around it in CVS which will
be available shortly as 1.4.1

I'm just sick and tired of getting blamed for this when it isn't even a
bug in our software.

> 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

again, not a bug in our software... this is just poor design in gtk2
(nothing we can do about it).

> 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.

thanks for the kind understanding words.

Jeff

> 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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