[Evolution] SOLVED: Removal of Junk/Unjunk buttons [Was: save button and shortcuts]

[Adam Tauno Williams <awilliam opengroupware us>]

On Wed, 2009-09-09 at 08:31 -0400, Reid Thompson wrote:
> On Wed, 2009-09-09 at 06:40 -0400, Adam Tauno Williams wrote:
> > On Tue, 2009-09-08 at 21:29 -0400, Jay Daniels wrote:
> > > I need a save button in evo so when i click this save button, poof!  it
> > > saved or actually moved to my "saved" folder automatically.
> > > Furthermore, I would like to be able to edit the toolbar buttons.  At
> > > least move that damn Junk button away from the Delete button.
> > Yes, that would be nice.  I just want to remove the *(&@*(* # Junk
> > button.
> > > Hey, what happen to the old style shortcuts like the ximian gnome
> > > evolution? and what happened to the start screen with number of
> > > messages, task, and weather?
> > I recall much debate about the removal of that feature;  it was dropped
> > a very long time ago (2.0?).
> > <quote>
> > Q: What happened to the Summary in Evolution 2.0?
> > A: The user interface was redesigned in Evolution 2.0 and the Summary
> > was removed from the product. 
> > Q: Where is the Shortcut bar in Evolution 2.0?
> > A: The user interface was redesigned in Evolution 2.0 and the shortcut
> > bar was removed. 
> > </quote>
> > The above is from
> > <http://www.novell.com/coolsolutions/feature/15262.html> which answers
> > the question but is itself scandalously out of date.
> > > It seems Evolution in Ubuntu Hardy and Jaunty has been stripped of these
> > > old features or in each new version they do away with something else.
> > > I wish Evolution was the way it was...
> > > http://www.guidebookgallery.org/pics/gui/applications/internet/mail/gnome220redhat9-1-1.png
> > I don't wish that;  Evolution is much more stable now than it was then.
> I believe that the xml files in ..share/evolution/2.28/ui/ control the
> menus ( 2.28 being my evo version ).
> For me, evolution-mail-message.xml contains
>   <placeholder name="MailMessageToolbar">
> which contains buttons/actions that act on an email message
> this is then referenced in
>    evolution-mail-global.xml
> as to where it's placed on the ui interface itself.
> Make copies of the files before you hack them.
> Shutdown evo   evolution --force-shutdown
> Change files
> restart evo
> repeat or revert

Yep.

evolution --force-shutdown
cd /usr/share/evolution/2.24/ui/
cp  evolution-mail-message.xml ~
sudo vi evolution-mail-message.xml

Now the irritating Junk/Unjunk buttons are gone.  Woo Hoo!

$ diff -u ~/evolution-mail-message.xml evolution-mail-message.xml
--- /home/awilliam/evolution-mail-message.xml   2009-09-09
08:46:14.000000000 -0400
+++ evolution-mail-message.xml  2009-09-09 08:49:42.000000000 -0400
@@ -96,20 +96,6 @@
     <cmd name="MessageMarkAsUnimportant"
      _tip="Mark the selected messages as unimportant"/>
 
-    <cmd name="MessageMarkAsJunk"
-     _tip="Mark the selected messages as junk"
-     accel="*Control*j"
-     pixtype="pixbuf"/>
-
-    <cmd name="MessageMarkAsNotJunk"
-     _tip="Mark the selected messages as not being junk"
-     accel="*Control**Shift*j"
-     pixtype="pixbuf"/>
-
-    <cmd name="MessageFilterJunk"
-     _tip="Filter the selected messages for junk status"
-     pixtype="pixbuf"/>
-
     <cmd name="MailCompose"
      _tip="Open a window for composing a mail message"
      pixtype="pixbuf"
@@ -352,11 +338,6 @@
             <menuitem name="MessageMarkAsImportant" verb=""
_label="_Important"/>
             <menuitem name="MessageMarkAsUnimportant" verb=""
_label="Uni_mportant"/>
 
-            <separator f="" name="emailmark2"/>
-
-            <menuitem name="MessageMarkAsJunk" verb="" _label="_Junk"/>
-            <menuitem name="MessageMarkAsNotJunk" verb="" _label="_Not
Junk"/>
-
            <separator f="" name="emaillist2"/>
 
             <menuitem name="MessageFollowUpFlag" verb="" _label="Follow
_Up..."/>
@@ -365,7 +346,6 @@
 
           </submenu>
           <menuitem name="MessageApplyFilters" verb="" _label="A_pply
Filters"/>
-          <menuitem name="MessageFilterJunk" verb="" _label="Check for
_Junk"/>
         </placeholder>
 
         <placeholder name="MessageRuleCreate">
@@ -413,12 +393,6 @@
        _label="Delete"
        pixtype="pixbuf"/>
 
-      <toolitem name="MessageMarkAsJunk" verb=""
-       _label="Junk"
-       pixtype="pixbuf"/>
-      <toolitem name="MessageMarkAsNotJunk" verb=""
-       _label="Not Junk"
-       pixtype="pixbuf"/>
     </placeholder>
 
     <placeholder name="MailNextButtons">