Re: [Evolution] A suggestion on searching, resend

[Patrick O'Callaghan <poc usb ve>]

On Sat, 2010-02-20 at 11:04 +0100, Thomas Mittelstaedt wrote:
> Looks like my previous mail did not get through. I had attached a
> small screenshot, a png file of about 30k in size.
>
> Am Freitag, den 19.02.2010, 17:48 +0100 schrieb Thomas Mittelstaedt: 
> > Am Freitag, den 19.02.2010, 10:55 -0430 schrieb Patrick O'Callaghan:
> > > On Fri, 2010-02-19 at 09:31 -0500, Reid Thompson wrote:
> > > > On Fri, 2010-02-19 at 09:41 -0430, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> > > >
> > > > > Is there an existing solution to this, and if not, does it sound a
> > > > > reasonable thing to ask for as an enhancement?
> > > >
> > > > Not sure if it's a solution, but what i've done is
> > > > Search/Advanced Search/set the search criteria/save to an appropriate
> > > > name.
> > > > Then, when needed, Click the Main Menu Search to get the dropdown and
> > > > select the named search. So, I think it' basically the same thing except
> > > > using the main menu Search dropdown rather than the Show selection list.
> > >
> > > In fact this is one of the options I mentioned in my post, but as I said
> > > it's not really what I want since I can't subsequently use the Search
> > > function. It needs to be one of the selectable views under the Show
> > > menu.
> >
> > Have you seen the combo-box above the message list? There you can choose
> > various criteria, among them unread mails, most recent mails, or mails
> > of the last 5 days or mails containing certain labels. And you can use
> > the search box to drill down further.

Please read my message again. The "combo box" you mention is exactly
what I'm talking about. The existing criteria are of limited use and I
want to be able to add my own. Telling me to use the Search box
completely misses the point, which is that I wish to define a *default*
view for a folder and if necessary then search within it, as I already
can if the default is one of the predefined options, e.g. Unread. I
can't do this conveniently if I'm already using Search to define the
default view.

poc