Re: [Evolution] New user, few questions

[Matthew Barnes <mbarnes redhat com>]

On Thu, 2011-10-20 at 18:42 +0100, sweetthdevil gmail com wrote: 
> Anyway now to the questions:
>
>  I am using two google account (mail/calendar/etc)
>
> - I wanted to rename the calendar name (listed as "Calendar" within
> evolution) renaming it from evolution doesn't work, and I can't find an
> option within gmail. 

It's hard-coded as "Calendar" for now, but I hope to improve this in 3.4
such that setting up a Google account through GNOME Online Accounts will
list *all* your Google calendars by their actual calendar names as shown
on Google.  There's some messy infrastructure stuff that needs improved
on before this can happen, which I'm working on now.


> - I want to be able to re-arrange the folder, for that I was using a
> plugin call conversation in Thunderbird (see below for url). This
> basically will show you only what's important for you.
> I.E. in my case, my two inbox folder (and the possibility to have one
> view with the two inbox together, and the RSS feed. The rest can be
> expand only when needed. 
> The view is therefore tidier not to mention the fact you do not have
> the need to scroll up and down all the time to access different
> mailboxes.

Search Folders can do a lot of this kind of thing.  I think some users
even use Search Folders exclusively and just leave their account trees
collapsed.

We don't have anything like Thunderbird's "favorite" folders.  I've
considered it in the past, but we just don't have it yet.


> - As I am only using my two gmail account I do not need the "On this
> Computer" folder can we remove them? Only if the RSS folder can then
> be move elsewhere. 

You can't actually remove "On This Computer", but in 3.4 you'll be able
to at least hide it from the sidebar and also reorder accounts in the
sidebar (a long requested feature).


> - Again as I am using two gmail account I do not want to keep my
> entire inbox locally in order to save hard-drive space, so an option
> to keep only the last 30 days of email locally would be great.

We don't have any options to limit cache size at the moment, although I
could foresee such an option being more like a web browser cache limit
where you pick a fixed cache size and it trims the least recently seen
mails rather than mails with the oldest date stamps.

Matthew Barnes