Re: [Evolution] Multiple selection for folders?

[Not Zed <notzed ximian com>]

File a feature request.

"sounds good", but it wouldn't be very easy to implement.

On Thu, 2004-10-28 at 17:10 -0400, Michael R Head wrote:
> I've searched bugzilla and the mailing lists for this, but I turned up
> nothing as of yet...
>
> Now (with 2.0) that the tree view only has folders containing mail
> messages, it would be very nice if there were a way to multiply select
> folders and (presumably) create an (anonymous) vFolder that merges the
> messages in all the selected folders. There could even be a way to turn
> that anonymous vFolder into a named vFolder for later.
>
> From rom a user-oriented perspective, this seems like the "right" thing to
> do when a user ctrl-clicks or shift-clicks in that view.
>
> From rom an implementation side, it appears (to, a programmer that isn't
> familiar with the Evo internals) that most of the infrastructure is
> there to build this.
>
> The particular reason I want this is pretty simple: I have a lot of
> folders. I frequently use the search bar to find old messages that could
> be in any number of folders. If I want to run such a search, I have to
> run my search on one folder, save that search to a vFolder, and add all
> the additional folders individually to that vFolder query (or I just add
> "all local and remote folders"). After I find the message I'm looking
> for, I delete that vFolder. 
>
> It would be so much more straightforward to simply select the folders I
> want to look in the folder view and run the search off of the search bar
> (possibly adding more folders later to search in more folders).
>
>
> I think this would be a killer feature for Evo, and I'd be surprised if
> someone hasn't already asked for it in bugzilla or on the mailing list,
> but I haven't been able to find the bugid or the mailing list thread.
>
> thanks,
> mike

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Michael Zucchi <notzed ximian com> "born to die, live to work, it's all downhill from here" Novell's Evolution and Free Software Developer