Last week I made the move from Outlook to Evolution 1.2. I thought I would give some feed back on things I am having difficulty adjusting to.
- There is no way I have found to do the equivalent of "Shift-Delete" in Outlook. Shift-Delete deletes a message permanently, without moving it the Trash folder. AFAICT, in Evolution there is no way to expunging a particular message. The fastest way I have found is to copy the message(s) concerned to a temporary folder, delete it, then expunge that folder. Messy. - Shift-Ctrl-M is modal in Evolution, in Outlook it isn't. This means that in Outlook I can press Shift-Ctrl-M regardless of where I am. In Evolution it won't work if I am in a mail folder (such as the Inbox), or if I am in the composer. I have found that having it modal in Evolution means I don't use it. It is easier to use the GUI because I don't have to ask myself "it this going to work here?". - When reading mail the ',' and '.' rarely seem to work. I have not been able to find a pattern as to when they do and don't. Also, it would be nice if shortcuts like that appeared in the menu. It means you can learn about their existence without reading the help. That is a seems to be an attribute of Microsoft products - you can use them without referring to the help by just using the hints the GUI gives you. - A minor thing - but in Outlook I grew accustomed to sitting down in the morning and going though my mail leaving a couple for later and deleting the rest. When I got the to end the message window would close, bringing a nice satisfying end to the morning ritual. In Evolution it does not close, instead it displays previous message - effectively reversing direction. I find that jarring. - Read receipts (aka Disposition Notifications). Obviously you guys don't consider them important, this being the second major release and they are still not there. I do - enough to spend a pleasant hour or so going through the source finding a way to turn them on permanently. I suspect a lot of others in corporate environments like mine place the same importance on them I do. Its not like its hard. - When a Yes/No/Cancel confirmation dialogue box is displayed, I am used to being able to press 'Y'/'N'/Escape. There does not seem to be any way to press 'Y'/'N', except by using the mouse. (Maybe this is a GTK thing?) Anyway, I miss being able to use the keyboard. -- Russell Stuart If you torture data sufficiently, it will confess to almost anything. -- Fred Menger _______________________________________________ evolution maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/evolution