Re: [Evolution] Handling Aliases, Silent Mode, & "Combo Tasks"

[Andre Klapper <ak-47 gmx net>]

Hi,

Am Freitag, den 10.12.2010, 08:42 +0100 schrieb Onyeibo Oku:
> 1. Once an account is set up it becomes difficult to implement an
> "alias sending".  Evolution doesn't allow its user change the sender's
> field when composing ... except for accounts created locally.  For
> people involved in open-source projects like Evolution this makes it
> hard to use evolution to send list related mails.  Why? Some users
> have email aliases tied to their email accounts ... and use the
> aliases for such projects.  Is there no way one could override the
> sender's field so users can enter their email aliases instead?

No. https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=213863 (no "me too"
comments please).

> 2. It would be nice if evolution can start silently ... docked in the
> panel and runs on the background.  This will ensure that the user gets
> notified when mails arrive.  This also frees the task bar.  This
> functionality can be archived in conjunction with another application
> called Alltray, but alltray has side effects. It introduces shaky
> graphic performance (Compiz transitions are affected)

Did you file a bug against alltray about their compiz issues?
As the FAQ states "GNOME includes a notification area to inform the user
about some special changes or events. It is not a system tray to
minimize applications to. However, you can abuse the notification area
to become a system tray by using external software (e.g.
http://alltray.trausch.us/)."
We do not want to "free the task bar" as it is against the concept of a
task bar.

> 3. This is more of a feature request: Wouldn't it be nice if Evolution
> can handle what I call "Layered Tasks" ... or "Stratified Tasks" ...
> or maybe, "Combo Tasks".  I've been thinking about this ever since I
> started using Evolution.  I see Combo Tasks (or whatever) as a Task
> that has other tasks inside it

https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=213273

andre
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