Re: [Evolution] Small points about Evo 2.4 and exchange

[Sarfraaz Ahmed <asarfraaz novell com>]

Hey,

Thanks a lot for that report :)

On Thu, 2005-09-22 at 14:07 +0300, regatta wrote:
> Hi
>
> I'm using Evo with exchange since Ximian released connector as GPL,
> any way here is some point maybe someone can help me or it can be
> fixed in the next release :
>
> 1. if you open a new compose and write the emails that you want to
> send the message to them, evolution will hang for few seconds (to get
> the full name from GAL I think), this issue is there from the
> beginning and anyway it's much faster with version 2.4 but it's still
> there

Hmm, does this happen everytime ? There is a cache that is used, when
you query the next times. Please file a bug if you see this delay for
the same name everytime.

> so my question is, why don't we make it like outlook, the user write
> the names then he click in a "check" button so evolution after that go
> to GAL and get the names

This is more of an evolution wide thing. Currently, this is in the
preferences dialog, where you can select the addressbook you want to
autocomplete your contacts from. May be you can disable it for GAL if
its causing a problem currently.

> 2. if you write  names in compose window and then write click in the
> name, you will not get any information about the user (not like in
> outlook)
>
> it's will be nice to get some information , like the name or the phone number

There is a bug filed for this in Connector, but i am not sure when we
will be implementing this though.

> 3. if you write names in compose window and write click you will find
> "Edit" option  in the popup menu (if I recall it's edit ....
> something"), anyway if you select it , evolution will hang and you
> have to kill it

Hmm, looks like evolution-exchange crashed for you when this happened. A
hang on evolution usually means the death of the backend, in your case
probably e-d-s or evolution-exchange. Please file a bug for this with
the gdb traces for the backends.

> 4. no simple way to move the names from one field to another , for
> example if you write someone in "To:" file and then you want to move
> it to "Cc:" you have to remove it and add it again in "Cc:" , no way
> to just copy and past (remember I'm talking about exchange)

Yeah, i guess there is a bug for this already on evolution. The current
design doesnt allow this behaviour though.

> 5. Still no notification window when you receive a new mail (you have
> to check evolution from time to time)

There is a new mail plugin which raises D-Bus signals. But i dont think
there is any future plans for implementing a new mail popup dialog.
Ofcourse, anybody interested in implementing is always welcome :-)

> 6. if you move a message from exchange to local inbox , evo will
> detect it as new mail and it will generate a D-Bus message about new
> mail and also it will play the new mail   alarm (sound), this is also
> if you send a message  , it will detect the Sent mail as new mail

Hmm, there is really no way for a folder to know, where the source of
the mail it appended to its list is. It cannot decide if it got the new
mail from the server, or from another store. Probably file a bug on this
and some new design changes could probably take care of this.

> 7. if you move a message from exchange to local, it will keep a copy
> of it in the exchange "Deleted item"

This is how the current design behaves, similar to the reason i said
above. Move to a different store always means, delete it from source
store and append it to the new store. This would need more design
changes.

> 8. still no way to use or read the distribution list mails

Not sure, what this is ?

> 9. (This one no for exchange only)  the compose window, in Evo 2.4 you
> can move the tool bar from the top to the right or the left or even to
> the bottom, this is very nice , but after you open a new compose, it
> will not remember the last position so it will open it in the top !!

Please file a bug for this in bugzilla

> 10. if you forward a message you will get "[ Fwd: bla bla bla ]" in
> the subject , my question is why the "[ ]" !! I mean we don't see it
> any other mail client use [ ] in the subject

Please file a bug for this in bugzilla.

> 11. The D-Bus message when there is a new mail is useless , it will
> only send the message url, I think we need to send the mail
> subject,From,first few line from the message.

Probably something that can be thought on in the new mail plugin.

> this a list of what I remember, if you need any help in any of them
> (debug code, recompile....) please let me

Thanks for pointing out these things. It always helps to get various
view points. :-)

-- Sarfraaz