Re: [Evolution] Automatic email selection when changing folder

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Le 19-10-30 à 06 h 03, Pete Biggs a écrit :
> > I'm not aware of a way to change this behavior. While the use-case
> > makes sense for you, it may not for others, or for me at least. When I
> > search for a message and clear the filtering, I want to stay on that
> > found message. Even when I move away from that folder and return back.
> > When I want to move to the next/previous unread message quickly I use
> > Ctrl+]/Ctrl+[.
> >
> > I would not add an option for the behavior you suggest.
> I would agree with that.  It makes it seriously difficult to pull
> together information in different emails in different folders if you
> have to re-search for the email you were looking at if you just switch
> folders.

It just depends on the user's workflow. I can honestly say that the 
default Evolution behavior is almost a deal-breaker. To use your own 
words, it makes it seriously difficult (for me) to use a software that 
decides (or more precisely that tries to guess) what I want to see. It's 
a really too basic assumption that users want to see again the last 
message viewed. We could argue that if a user wants to check again an 
email, he/she just has to open it in a new window. That's what I do with 
Thunderbird.

Same for unread emails. The software doesn't have any clue about if I 
want to view or not an unread email.

When I click on a folder in Evolution, I see it the same way than when I 
click on a bookmark in Firefox. If I click on the bookmark 
www.mozilla.org I don't want my browser to automatically redirect me to 
www.mozilla.org/firefox/new/ just because its the last page viewed on 
www.mozilla.org. I just want to go to the URL specified, then click (or 
not) myself on whatever link I want.

However, I don't want to argue about changing the default Evolution 
behavior. I just want to say that it really doesn't fit with my workflow 
and I think it would be a good thing to allow users to disable this 
basic email autoselection.

If no option is added about that, is it technically possible to write a 
plugin that modifies this behavior or it would have to be in the core?

Thanks,

Jean-Philippe