Re: [orca-list] Evolution Questions

[Steve Holmes <steve holmesgrown com>]

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Thanks to all of you for the tips.  I read the keyboard stuff a while
ago but must have forgotten about the plus and minus keys to open
trees.  I always used the enter key to open tree structures in
Nautilus and that always worked.  Thanks again.

On Mon, Mar 31, 2008 at 08:39:56PM +0100, Michael Whapples wrote:
> I don't know if any one else has answered this yet as I get the list
> digest. The answer is use + (plus) to open a collapsed item and -
> (minus) to close an expanded item. This isn't specific to evolution, but
> it is usual for all GTK treeviews. You may find it useful to read the
> gnome keyboard shortcuts as gnome while being very similar in some ways
> to using windows does have some slight differences in keyboard
> navigation.
>
> Michael Whapples
> On Mon, 2008-03-31 at 11:40 -0700, Steve Holmes wrote:
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> > I don't know if Orca is the cause of this problem or not.  Basically I
> > can't seem to open any folders under newly added mail accounts.
> >
> > I think I some how got gmail working on it yesterday after a fluke or
> > something.  I have since rebuilt the configurations several times and
> > up to now, I cannot access gmail nor mail on a local spool.  I as of
> > now created two e-mail accounts; one is local spool pointing to
> > /var/mail/steve and the other is an IMAP connection to gmail.  My
> > gmail account authenticates fine by prompting me for a password and no
> > errors returned.  In fact, the subscriptions dialog in the folders
> > menu shows the gmail folders and they are all subscribed by default.
> > When I arrow up and down the list of mail folders, I see the first six
> > "on the computer and they are all empty except for the intro message
> > from the Evolution team in the inbox folder.  I know for a fact
> > there's a bunch of message available on my gmail account but in
> > evolution, the gmail entry shows as collapsed and I cannot expand it.  
> >
> > Here is my question; how do you open the "collapsed" folders? It is in
> > a tree table but left and right arrows only cause a beep.  Hitting the
> > enter key does nothing; the Alt-arrow keys don't do anything either.
> > So what do I do in this case? 
> >
> > Oh, I get the same thing in my local spool too.  Now that should be a
> > no brainer but again, the local spool box is collapsed and I can't
> > read the test message that I sent to it earlier today.
> >
> > I honestly don't know how I got gmail over IMAP working yesterday but
> > it sure isn't reachable now.
> >
> > Any ideas out there?
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