Re: [Evolution] Go directly to new mail

[Des Dougan <des DouganConsulting com>]

On Wed, 2006-02-22 at 09:54 -0400, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> On Wed, 2006-02-22 at 13:53 +0100, Andre Klapper wrote:
> > hi ian,
> >
> > Am Mittwoch, den 22.02.2006, 04:34 -0800 schrieb Ian Truelsen:
> > > I was wondering if it was possible to have the first new mail message
> > > open automatically when I enter a new folder?
> >
> > no, there isn't. however, there is a "view | hide read messages"
> > per-folder option, and the "." shortcut to get to the next unread
> > message. both i guess is not a workaround either. :-/
>
> Two things: View->Hide Read Messages only hides messages read up to the
> moment you execute it. Messages read subsequently are not hidden until
> you execute it again. In other words it's not like the similarly-named
> Hide Deleted Messages. This may or may not be the desired behaviour.
>
> Secondly, the "." shortcut only works if some message in the folder is
> already selected. If not, you get a text entry box in the folder list
> pane with a "." in it. IMHO this is completely useless. Hands up
> everyone who has folders with names starting with a "." -- on an IMAP
> server this is actually illegal. (In fact, how many people actually use
> the "select a new folder by typing a prefix of its name" feature?).
>
> I've reported this as a bug in the past:
>
> http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=268644
>
> This is from October 2004 and as far as I can see has had no progress.
> Please don't tell me to use Ctrl-]. It's hard to hit even on a US
> keyboard, and *really* hard to hit on many continental keyboards.
>
> poc

I'm with Patrick on this - the folder text entry box is worthless, and,
to be honest, as good a mail client as Evo is, the fact that it doesn't
jump to the first unread message in a folder is terribly poor from the
perspective of usability. I've been waiting for it to be fixed since 1.4
- every other mail client I've used supports this behaviour. I realize
that there are reasons to do with the widget toolset (IIRC), but it's
still a major annoyance that the designers really should address.

Regards,

Des
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