Thank you for a prompt reply. Further comments below. On Thu, 2004-12-16 at 15:46 +0800, Not Zed wrote: > On Thu, 2004-12-16 at 07:44 +0100, Svante Signell wrote: > > Hello, > > > > I have been using Evolution (both 1.x and 2.0) as mailer for a while now > > and the current version is 2.03. I have some usability questions and > > comments on this mailer: > I'll presume you mean 2.0.3, there is no such version as 2.03. Yes, my version is 2.0.3 > > 1. Is it possible to remove attachments, to save disk space? > no Is this hard to implement? In Emacs VM the removed attachement name remains in the original mail.
> > 2. Changing time format in the message list area to 24 hour format, > > without changing the LOCALE. I have not not found out how to do this yet > > and it is _very_ annoying to use the AM/PM format. > no, you will need to change the locale/lang or at least LC_TIME > variable (i presume). Changing LC_TIME is not a good solution. For example, changing LC_TIME to sv_SE.ISO-8859-1 gives the date and time in Swedish. I want something like the date format in a terminal w/o setting LC_TIME: E.g. date in coreutils results in: Wed Dec 22 08:32:32 CET 2004 > > 2. Colors, the default enhancement color for e.g. the mail folder is > > dark blue over black text. This is almost unreadable. In the message > > list area the colors are dark blue over white text, this is Ok. > thats 2 point 2's. Hmm, this depends on your theme. The default > looks clealry readable to me, perhaps you have some monitor setting > issues. Try a different theme perhaps, the folder list is the gtk > default, the other is an evolution customisation. Thanks, I will look into this later. > > 3. Sort and find unread mails. Moving to next unread mail seems to be > > possible with . and ], but I have not found an meny entry. Furthermore, > Tried looking in the view->goto menu? Found it thanks. I tried to right-click on in the message list area and found nothing there. Also no main menu icons are visible, only previous and next. Is this customisable? > > how to sort mails so that the unread mails are last or first in the > > message list area. Sorting in cronological order is made impossible with > > the default way of showing the date/time of messages. At least it does > > not result in the correct sorting order... > Try clicking on the message status icon column. Or doing a complex > sort via a custom view. Thanks. However, right-clicking on sort ascending/descending in the date column does _not_ give the correct sort order, for example Mon and Yesterday entries are mixed, and today is Wednesday... > > 4. Replying without including the message text (except to remove all > > text manually) > File a feature request I guess. That isn't a reply anyway, since > reply implies you have content to reply to. How do I do that? > > 5. Replying and being able to select to include/not to include > > attachements. > Not possible. :-( > > 6. Possibility to use e.g. Emacs keyboard commands for editing text. I > > have been using Emacs VM for a long time and VM still has many > > advantages compared to the more modern Evolution. > This is a gnome setting, try your user settings Thanks, I will try later. > > 7. FAQ: When clicking on the FAQ > > http://ximian.com/products/evolution/faq.html you are forwarded to > > http://www.novell.com/products/desktop/features/evolution.html which is > > _not_ an FAQ, only a brief feature description of Evolution... > Oh well. The whole ximian site is deprecated, it sounds like you're > starting from the wrong spot. Try forge.novell.com and looking for > the evolution project. When subscribing to this list I got an email with this link. Maybe the links in the confirmation mail entitled: Welcome to the "evolution mailing list" should be updated. -- Svante Signell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> _______________________________________________ evolution maillist - [email protected] http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/evolution
