On Tue, 2004-04-20 at 23:45, Ron Johnson wrote:
> On Tue, 2004-04-20 at 22:06 -0400, Jeffrey Stedfast wrote:
> > On Tue, 2004-04-20 at 21:49, Ron Johnson wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > > 
> > > Up to, and including 1.4.x:
> > > 
> > > 1. there's been a little box above "the list of emails in the dir-
> > > ectory" (pardon me that I don't know what the official name is) that
> > > listed the number of emails in the folder, the number unread, and the
> > > number selected.  I thought it was *very* useful, but now is gone.  
> > 
> > this is now above the folder tree.
> 
> Ah, I see it now, in, what, a 4 point font?

you mean the font you chose for all of GNOME?

> 
> It's *really* hard to miss.
> 
> > > 
> > > 2. When an email was open in a separate window, pressing <Esc> would
> > > close the window.  Very handy, but now gone.
> > 
> > this was probably just overlooked.
> 
> Can you put in a good word?  Should I "bug" it?

yea, I'll add it to my todo list

> 
> > > 
> > > 3. If I clicked on a local folder (i.e., one stored in evolution/,
> > > I could choose what method to store it in: mbox, MH or Maildir.
> > > Nice, because it allowed you to change your mind about the storage
> > > method.
> > 
> > this isn't likely to come back (at least not in the way 1.4 worked)
> 
> Too bad.  How come?

the on-disk structure changed and would no longer support multiple
folder formats

> 
> The answers to 2 & 3 make me think that Evo is being rewritten.
> Is that true?

the front-end underwent a fair bit of rewrite, yes.

Jeff

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