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

[regatta <regatta gmail com>]

Thank you All

I will fill bugs in the next 3 days once I recompile evolution* with
debug option

my question is how can I trace for evolution-exchange since evolution
will run it once I run evolution ?

should I just trace evolution and submit all the trace as
evolution-exchange trace ?

another thing for the notification popup window that I talked about it
in item 5, since there is no way to use the d-bus message , I made a
small Perl script that can run as a filter and it will popup every
time there is a new mail (with very good information about the
received mail) , I wrote it in Perl with GTK,

Do you want me guys to rewrite it in C and you will implement it with
evolution as a default filter (since again no way in the current
design of evolution to use the d-bus )

you can test from downloading it from
http://www.altwaijiry.com/scripts/new-evolution-mail-0.0.1.tar.bz2

also you can see the popup window that I'm talking about in this
snapshot screen
http://www.altwaijiry.com/scripts/new-evolution-mail.png

it will display the Sender name (in orange) and the message subject
(green) and also 3 lines from the message (blue) and it will  close it
self after few seconds




On 9/23/05, Sushma Rai <rsushma novell com> wrote:
> On Thu, 2005-09-22 at 14:07 +0300, regatta wrote:
>
> > 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
> >
> > 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
>
> First of all, autocompleting from GAL should not hang Evolution.
> Hope you have filed a bug on that. If not, while it hangs, file a bug
> attaching gdb traces for evolution-exchange and evolution and file a
> bug.
> And for selecting GAL only when you want it, don't select GAL for
> autocompletion in account preferences dialog and to select contact from
> GAL, while you compose a mail/meeting request, click on "To:" filed,
> which will launch a dialog, select GAL there and search for the contact.
>
>
> > 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
> I guess some bug is there on this.
>
> > 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
> This is to open contact editor for that entry, and it should not hang.
> Again, file a bug with the gdb traces for hang..
>
> > 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)
>
> yes, if the entry is autocompleted, as of now cut and paste only copies
> the name and not e-mail. This is also a known issue.
>
> > 5. Still no notification window when you receive a new mail (you have
> > to check evolution from time to time)
> I think there is some mail notification applet which you can use, not
> sure. Evolution itself doesn't do it.
>
> > 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
> B-Bus?
> About moved mail getting marked as new mail, I am not sure. I don't use
> exchange connector. Some exchange connector developer can help you here.
>
> > 7. if you move a message from exchange to local, it will keep a copy
> > of it in the exchange "Deleted item"
> move is considered as delete?
>
> > 8. still no way to use or read the distribution list mails
> I think this is planned for 2.6. See
> http://go-evolution.org/Exchange/Exchange26
>
> for rest of the issues, file bugs so that respective maintainers will
> look at it. Since the subject has "Exchange", some might skip this mail.
>
> -Sushma.
>
> > 9. (This one no for exchange only)  the copose 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 !!
> >
> > 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
> >
> > 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.
> >
> > this a list of what I remember, if you need any help in any of them
> > (debug code, recompile....) please let merespe
> >
> > Note: I'm using
> > Linux Gentoo
> > Gnome 2.12
> > Evolution 2.3
> > Kernel 2.6.12
> >
> > --
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