RE: [Evolution] Selecting multiple messages buggy

["D. D. Brierton" <darren dzr-web com>]

On Thu, 2004-04-29 at 04:35, Not Zed wrote:

> You're just going to have to do it in multiple steps for the
> forseeable future.  The selection stuff in ETable is a nightmare, and
> the maintainers pissed off to do more fun things and left it with us
> to deal with - and nobody knows how it works.

:-) Bummer. Oh well.

> To me doing it multiple steps seems a fair bit simpler, less error
> prone and less clumsy than doing multiple range selections, but maybe
> thats me.

Not necessarily just you -- but once you get used to it it's actually
really nifty selecting multiple groups like that.

> It may also be a GNOME policy, it wouldn't make sense if evo worked
> differently to other gnome apps.

This strikes me as the crucial thing. As I said earlier in this thread,
you can't select multiple groups of files like this in Nautilus or in
File Roller. Trouble is I'm now using an ancient version of GNOME (2.2
AKA XD2). So I'm not really sure how things work in 2.6. But if no one
else will volunteer I will pop over to the relevant mailing lists and
raise my head above the parapet on this one. I'm not quite sure where to
start (I won't post initially to more than one list): either nautilus,
desktop-devel, or usability (where's the accessibility list, is that the
same as the usability list?).

I think that if this hasn't already been decided against by either the
accessibility or the usability guys then this should work by default in
all GNOME apps for which it's relevant, like Nautilus, File Roller,
Evolution, etc. And if it were to be policy then the Evo hackers will
*have* to fix ETable like it or no :-)

That said, an email about this is bound to go down better on one of the
lists mentioned above if it's written by someone who is either using
GNOME 2.6 or who knows (e.g. me if someone were to assure me so) that it
doesn't work in 2.6.

Best, Darren

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