On Thu, 2005-06-30 at 12:29 +0800, Not Zed wrote: > > > > > > I should file a bug to get back a feature that I've counted on since day > > > one, and that was apparently removed intentionally? Why can't you just > > > put back the hide/unhide messages feature? > > > > The new menu items are still buggy. They seemed to work for a while, > > but now the 2430 messages seem to be permanently hidden. Neither > > 'View->Show Messages->All' nor 'View->Show Messages->Unread' do > > anything. Even restarting Evolution does not help. > > File a bug (when its up again i guess) and assign it to dobey - by > committing the patches he implicitly agreed to 'taking responsibility' > for the changes that I gave as a condition of him committing them. >
OK. > > What exactly was the problem with the old behavior again? > > Technically it was a bit messy, but it did work afterall. But mainly > there were some usability issues that people tended not to get at first. > Although if they used it a couple of times they picked it up pretty > easily. Strange that, expecting human curiosity and self-learning in > this modern age ... > As a matter of fact the new behavior is a big usability problem, even once you get used to it. I often handle a folder with hundreds of unread messages by reading a few dozen in order, with threaded view. Then I would "Hide Read Messages" and the tree would refresh to show only the unread messages, two mouse clicks total. Now, the same action requires me to do "View -> Show Messages -> All", "View -> Show Messages -> Unread" - six mouse clicks. This is major usability regression. Lee _______________________________________________ evolution-hackers maillist - [email protected] http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/evolution-hackers
