Re: [Evolution] Viewing Unread messages only

["Patrick O'Callaghan" <poc usb ve>]

On Thu, 2006-01-05 at 23:56 -0500, Ross Vandegrift wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 05, 2006 at 12:00:08PM +0000, Gordon Burgess-Parker wrote:
> > I would like to have a view that will show Unread messages only. I'm
> > having difficulty doing this. Can anyone point me in the right
> > direction?
>
> You can also choose View -> Hide Read Messages to accomplish this
> task.

This doesn't do what you might think (I know since I use it). The
"natural" (IMHO) interpretation is to not show in the folder pane those
messages which have already been read, and that once a message is read
it disappears from the pane. However what it actually does is to hide
messages that have been read *up to the time it is applied*. It has no
effect on messages read after that, even if you switch away from the
folder and back again, so you have to re-apply it. In other words, it
defines an action, not a condition.

Why do I say the natural interpretation is to define a condition?
Because on the very same menu we find View->Hide Deleted Messages, which
*does* define a condition. It's true that Hide Deleted Messages gets a
tick mark beside it when it's active (and Hide Read Messages doesn't)
but when it's not active there's nothing to tell that one is
qualitatively different from the other.

Not a big deal, just another example of where the exact semantics of
commands is not clearly defined anywhere and you have to experiment to
find out what they do.

poc