Re: [Evolution] A suggestion on searching, resend

[Thomas Mittelstaedt <tmstaedt t-mittelstaedt de>]

Am Samstag, den 20.02.2010, 14:42 -0430 schrieb Patrick O'Callaghan: 
> 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. 

But you can define your own labels, use filters to set labels on mails
and these new labels are then available in the combo-box.

> 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,

But that's what I meant: First use the combo-box to limit the view of
messages having label "important", for instance, and then enter
something in the search box to search within those messages. Just tried
again. Works for me.

> 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.

Once you have chosen a criterion in the combo box, it stays the default
view until you hit Ctrl-Shift-Q, even if you leave the folder and return
to it. Works for me in 2.28.3.


-- 
thomas