Re: [Evolution] Evolution display / usability issues

[Reid Thompson <reid thompson ateb com>]

On Thu, 2009-02-26 at 08:01 -0500, Art Alexion wrote:
> I use Evolution because I severely dislike Outlook. The things I dislike the most about Outlook are those 
> things recently requested of Evo on this list.
>
> Gmail took threading -- which existed for years in open source mail agents -- implemented it in webmail, 
> and renamed it "conversations". (By the way, gmail sorts threaded messages the same way complained of in 
> the alleged bug -- threads in reverse chronological order, and messages within threads in chronological 
> order.  I suspect that this is implemented because of the nature of webmail.)
>
> Microsoft implemented some lame 'group by subject' view (subject words, not message id) and, later, adopted 
> the 'conversation' terminology in order to jump on the gmail bandwagon.
>
> If evo has a problem in this regard, it is the lack of next/previous unread message buttons on the toolbar.


Making a mod ala this will add a MailNextUnread button, you can dup/mod
for MailPrevUnread etc.  Someone else will have to educate us on how to
define a png properly so that it shows up on the button.

rthompso raker /opt/evo/share $ diff
-Naur ./evolution/2.26/ui/evolution-mail-message.xml /tmp/evolution-mail-message.xml 
--- ./evolution/2.26/ui/evolution-mail-message.xml      2009-02-26
09:39:14.000000000 -0500
+++ /tmp/evolution-mail-message.xml     2009-02-26 09:39:10.121923345
-0500
@@ -429,6 +429,10 @@
       <toolitem name="MailNext" verb=""
        _label="Next"
        pixtype="pixbuf"/>
+
+      <toolitem name="MailNextUnread" verb=""
+       _label="MailNextUnread"
+       pixtype="pixbuf"/>
     </placeholder>
   </dockitem>