Re: [Evolution] HELP/new explanation for Sylvia

[Nick Jenkins <nickpj gmail com>]

> But when I access the second instance,
> the pop-up that responds to the "TO:" in the "EDIT" (email composing)
> mode, that window is ignoring the instruction, and displaying the
> Contacts sorted on "Full Name", rather than on the "File Under" field.

I observe the same behaviour in Evo 2.26.1; if it's still happening in
2.28, then suggest logging it as a new item in bugzilla.

> The reason I am finding the lack of responses to this query so
> puzzling
> is very simple: it seems that either nobody else has experienced
> this, or that they have, and have ignored it.

I think most people use auto-complete on a partially typed name or email
address, rather than clicking the "To" button, which is probably the
primary explanation for people's quietness.

> Is it possible that people would actually put up with
> having their Contacts incorrectly sorted every time they need to
> retrieve one when composing an email?

In general, I suspect the "File under" field is not being used as
consistently throughout Evo as it could be.

For example, in the contact editor dialog, I think "File under" should
be used consistently as the name of the dialog box, which is logged as:
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=575312
(obviously that's a very low-priority bug, but I think it's symptomatic
that there are a few remaining places in Evo's UI where "full name" is
used when "file under" should be used instead as the display name and/or
sort order).

-- All the best,
Nick.