Re: [Evolution] Ordering in the Show pop-up menu

[Patrick O'Callaghan <poc usb ve>]

On Mon, 2016-01-11 at 19:25 +0100, Milan Crha wrote:
> On Wed, 2015-12-16 at 17:22 +0000, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> >  
> > I'm sure other people have different opinions about this, but I
> > thought I'd just throw it out there.
>
>       Hi,
> would it make it better to have all those "static" options at the top
> and the list of labels at the very bottom of the combo box?

That could work.

> I think it's not a big deal for the users, especially when it'll make
> things easier for them, once they "learn" the changed order. The
> labels might be as in a sub-level as well, to not have too long
> initial drop down.

Fine by me but I don't really use labels much so better ask people who
do use them what they think about it.

> Neither of these would always help with the scrolling option, the
> decision whether to scroll or not is made by the gtk+ itself, it's
> completely out of the evolution hands.

Understood.

Another solution would be to have keyboard shortcuts for the common
cases, such as All, Last 5 days, Important and Unread. The challenge of
course would be to come up with suitable shortcuts. Even a toggle that
turns New on and off would be a big improvement.

> A feature request in the GNOME bugzilla against evolution will help
> to not forget of this.

I'll do that. I have a few other ideas I'll write up as well.

poc