Re: [Evolution] 0.8 Feature requests & questions

[Shane Landrum <srl ainnovations com>]

On 02 Jan 2001 11:12:37 -0500, Ettore Perazzoli wrote:
> On 02 Jan 2001 10:09:12 -0500, Shane Landrum wrote:
> > I want to be able to right-click on a message in the message list and
> > add
> > an address from that email to my address book--- like the "T" key in
> > Pine. 
> > Are there plans for this functionality, or is it there and I'm missing
> > it?
>
>     http://bugzilla.helixcode.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1050


I don't just want to be able to add that message's author to the
addressbook, but also
any of the addressees and any email address mentioned in the text. If
there are multiple
addressees, I'd like the option to create a mailing group/list for those
people. I see this
as happening possibly in a new dialog box. Look at pine's functionality
if you want to
see what I'm used to. 


> > When I'm writing an email, why does the text of my message show up in 
> > Normal (proportional-width) text, but my sigfile shows up in
> > fixed-width?
> > This drives me nuts, as I have to figure out whether Evo might actually
> > be
> > trying to send (gack!) HTML mail. It's counter-intuitive to see two
> > different
> > fonts (and the Bold/Italic/etc button bar) in a mail that's actually
> > being sent
> > as plain text. I'd make everything one font, and turn off the button
> > bar, if I'm
> > working in plaintext. 
>
>   When converting into text/plain, Evolution will only wrap paragraphs
> that would get wrapped when displayed in graphical HTML (i.e. everything
> besides PRE sections).

*nod* but that isn't what I'm asking. I'm asking about a UI point. I
think
the existing UI isn't clear. It's hard to understand what Evo's going to
do with the text 
(text/plain or text/HTML) when I see the HTML button-bar at the top
of my message. 

I don't want to have to go to the Format menu to
find out whether this is a text/plain message or not. I want the UI to
indicate this to me by displaying my text as fixed-width, and/or by
turning the HTML button-bar off. I also want control over the line-wrap
length so that I can set it to 65 or 72 characters, so my quotebacks in
replies
don't look like above (line-broken because they're too long).

srl
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