On Wed, 2002-11-20 at 11:18, Not Zed wrote: <snip>
> Dont even know what this is. But that doesn't sound like a showstopper. No. None of these things are. Evolution 1.2 is very, very good. IMHO it is the first piece of open source office software that is on a par with Microsoft's equivalent offering - better in some ways, in fact. An extraordinary achievement, considering the resources Microsoft has to throw at the problem. <snip> > > - 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. > > They were changed to [ and ]. They do show up in the menu as a > shortcut. I read about ',' and '.' on this list. I went looking but could not find the message again - but I found other references to them. It turns out I was confused - I thought ',' and '.' moved between all messages, whereas they actually move between unread messages - and they work exactly as the author intended. According to CVS ',' and '.' were added 2002-09-03. The documentation is wrong about this - it says N & P move between messages - they don't. I tried to attach the key bindings *Alt*Left and *Alt*Right to moving between all messages (as opposed to just unread ones). They are the bindings Outlook uses. It sort of works - you have to press them twice, and they aren't displayed in the menu. <snip> > > - 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. > > There is no standard for implementing this. It wouldn't be much use > adding it if most mailers dont support it and subseqeuntly it doesn't > work for most users. Re: No standard. That is wrong. RFC 2298 is devoted to describing these things should work. Outlook & Outlook Express, the products Evolution is trying to replace, do support it. Other modern email clients such as kmail and mozilla also support it. So I suspect your concern about "most mailers dont support it" is unfounded, particularly as it is not meant to be a reliable mechanism in any case. However, I see that this topic has already been discussed here: "http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/evolution/2001-November/014443.html";. It seems its the usual problem of too little time and too much to do - they would accept a patch if it was done properly. Fair enough. <snip> _______________________________________________ evolution maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/evolution
