Re: [Evolution] Evolution display / usability issues

[Milan Crha <mcrha redhat com>]

On Wed, 2009-02-25 at 10:08 -0430, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> On Wed, 2009-02-25 at 14:17 +0100, Milan Crha wrote:
> > On Wed, 2009-02-25 at 00:15 +0000, Wobbly_hs wrote:
> > > On this latter one I note that Thunderbird 3 now proposes to include a
> > > conversation view!  Wonder how long it'll be before Evolution catches up
> > > too?
> >
> >     Hi,
> > you can achieve similar thing with Search Folders, just include your
> > sent folder with other folders and enjoy. It's there for years, I guess.
> > The only thing is to use the "match-all" rule.
>
> Milan, I do this for a small number of conversations, but it's laborious
> to set up. I've asked for an enhancement to make this easier
> (http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=386036) which you took action
> on. However I don't see the "filter on sender and recipients" option
> anywhere in 2.24.4.

Yup, you cannot, it's in the development version only.

> Is this what "match-all" means? It's not very clear.
> The help says that "match-all" matches all the criteria listed, but
> "match-all" is itself presented in the drop-down menu of criteria. How
> is this supposed to work?

I do not know how was this designed, but my understanding of "match-all"
is that it matches any message, and because I didn't use any other rule
in my test search folder, then it contained all the messages from all
the folders I selected to be included, no special filtering for
senders/receivers/whatever, only single match-all rule. With that you
should see something very similar to google's view.

> BTW, as I understand it the proposed Tbird 3 feature would automatically
> sort *all* messages into conversations, which is not the same thing at
> all.

It depends how they have it implemented, in case it's some special
folder somewhere, not reflected on the server, then that's exactly what
evo calls Search Folders :) Anyway, this is just one option I thought
about. I did not tell it's the only, nor the best.

        Bye,
        Milan