Re: [Evolution] new mail count anywhere in evo 2.0?

[Jason 'vanRijn' Kasper <vR movingparts net>]

On Sun, 2004-09-26 at 16:17 +0200, guenther wrote:
> > > > one of the things that I really liked in evo 1.4 was the ability to look
> > > > quickly at the section on the left hand side shortcut bar and see how
> > > > many new e-mails were in the IMAP boxes that I had drag/dropped there.
> > > > As it stands now, I have have to scroll up/down and look at the
> > > > individual INBOX's to see if I have any new mail in my several IMAP
> > > > accounts.  
> > > >
> > > > Is there a better way to do this or is something being planned to help
> > > > with this?  tooltip or something?
> > >
> > > In this picture, look under the Send/Receive icon.  Is that what
> > > you are talking about?
> >
> > that works nicely if you happened to have selected the INBOX you're
> > interested in.  I actually have more than one IMAP account in the tree
> > on the left hand side.  What I need to be able to do is, at a glance,
> > tell whether any of the INBOXes of the 3 IMAP accounts have new mail in
> > them--not just the one that I have selected.
>
> Not the same as the (deprecated since 1.5 and now) non-existent Shortcut
> Bar -- but there is a quick workaround which basically does the same:
>
> * Create one vFolder for every Inbox -- with "Expression" "#t" as the
>   only criteria and "specific folders only" <Inbox> as sources.
>
> Then all your Inboxes will align nicely next to each other at the bottom
> of your folder tree. You can see the unread count at a glance and deal
> with those Inboxes without scrolling.
>
> (Hint: A vFolder name with a "/" will be arranged in subtrees. For
> example, name your Inbox vFolder "Inbox/Account-A".)
>
> ...guenther

this would be acceptable if I could move my vfolders up to the top of
the tree.  as it is, they're at the bottom, which is out of sight, since
I have the INBOX from my first IMAP account selected most of the time
and it is at the top of the tree.

>
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