Re: [Evolution] Improving Interface Divider Visibility
Jacob wrote: Hello, this is a suggestion for the project (I couldn't find a suggestion link, so I figured I might send it on the mailing list). A few days ago I helped install Ubuntu on a friend's computer, and I pointed him to Evolution for an Outlook equivalent (I don't use it myself). He configured it without a hitch. But when I came back to check on him, though he had successfully sent and received his mail, he couldn't seem to display any of them on screen. I clicked the Inbox button. No list of his emails appeared. I wrote a draft and saved it. When I clicked the draft button, no draft item appeared. Just a white box where it seemed a list of emails should be. Things were frustrating until I realized he had accidentally pulled the frame divider between the mail list and view frames to the top, where it covered the From/Subject/Date list and blended perfectly with the top panel. The only hint to the presence of another frame was the tiny perforated grip in the middle of the divider -- very missable. This issue probably doesn't happen very often. Nevertheless, to prevent this from making the interface mysteriously unusable, when the user navigates to a new section (Inbox, Drafts, Junk, etc) and the divider is all the way up, the divider should shift down a little. The rationale behind this is: if a user is looking for new mail, they're no longer reading the current mail in the viewer and won't be disturbed by the reappearance of the mail list (which they need to see anyway). Either that or make the panel more visible, which would annoy experienced users. In any case, I hope you can do something, because while it really is a stupid problem (I have no idea why my friend pulled the divider up that far; and why did he forget?), an aim of evolution is high usability... right? Thanks. I like this suggestion. I have to add to this (perhaps if you're filing an enhancement request, you can include mine if you agree with it): Have a setting where the left and right panes can be adjusted separately for the mail page and for the calendar page. I'd like to eliminate the left pane on the calendar page to give the calendar more room to show items in the Month view (otherwise the boxes for each day shrink and the events are unreadable because there's not enough room for all the text to display), but if I do that, then it also goes away on the Mail page, where I need it to see my mailboxes. Also, I'd like the Tasks pane on the right to be visible on the mail page, but not on the calendar page. In general, I find that Evolution can improve in efficiency of screen real estate, especially on the Calendar. For example, the window borders are thicker than in Thunderbird, which takes pixels away from the calendar. I think these borders are to hold the scroll bar, but even if a scroll bar is not needed, that space is reserved. In a nutshell, I find the formatting of the Calendar page to be inefficient, making it difficult to read calendar events without mousing over individual events to allow reading of the entire event text. I'd appreciate if there are any workarounds to my comments, that someone posts here for all to see. Regards. -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Improving-Interface-Divider-Visibility-tp18437600p18447049.html Sent from the Gnome Evolution - General mailing list archive at Nabble.com. ___ Evolution-list mailing list Evolution-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/evolution-list
Re: [Evolution] Error while fetching mail ???
On Thu, 2008-07-10 at 12:47 -0400, William Case wrote: Hi; Every time I send or receive mail I get a warning message at the bottom of my Evo window telling me Error while fetching mail. In fact, there never seems to really be an error or problem fetching mail. The warning goes away after a minute of two. I have checked my standard logs and can't seem to see anything untoward. No information from help- Debug Logs ? Also when the warning comes up you can cliec on the information icon, it'll popup the warning dialog with more information. -- Johnny Jacob http://johnnyjacob.org signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part ___ Evolution-list mailing list Evolution-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/evolution-list
Re: [Evolution] Paravirtualization BIOS for 745
On Mon, 2008-07-14 at 09:20 -0400, Art Alexion wrote: Is there a BIOS available so that the chip on the Optiplex 745 can take advantage of paravirtualization? I'm pretty sure this CPU has the VT capability. I'd like to use KVM (the kernel virtualization module) with qemu. Wrong list I think. poc ___ Evolution-list mailing list Evolution-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/evolution-list
Re: [Evolution] Can calendar reminders be made persistent?
On Fri, Jul 11, 2008 at 2:54 AM, timzak [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Using SVN trunk on openSUSE-11.0 - all my reminders pop up as windows, by default. I'm not aware of reminders in the notification area. (Ubuntu specific patch probably?) I don't know. I'll check on Ubuntu forums. Actually, what I notice is there is a temporary pop-up in the lower right corner of my desktop, but it only shows for a few seconds before going away. From that point, I see the Evolution notification icon in the notification area of my panel. When I left-click this, THEN the Appointments window pops up on my screen permanently (until I close it manually). Which pop up window are you refering to, the temporary one in the lower right corner, or the one that says Appointments in the top panel and stays until manually dismissed? The one which stays until manually dismissed.. -Suman ___ Evolution-list mailing list Evolution-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/evolution-list
Re: [Evolution] Error while fetching mail ???
On Tue, 2008-07-15 at 14:11 +0530, Johnny Jacob wrote: On Thu, 2008-07-10 at 12:47 -0400, William Case wrote: Hi; Every time I send or receive mail I get a warning message at the bottom of my Evo window telling me Error while fetching mail. In fact, there never seems to really be an error or problem fetching mail. The warning goes away after a minute of two. I have checked my standard logs and can't seem to see anything untoward. No information from help- Debug Logs ? Also when the warning comes up you can cliec on the information icon, it'll popup the warning dialog with more information. Additional warning: Host lookup failed: pop.braodband.rogers.com: Name or service not known Never noticed that Help = Debug before. Is it new? Too bad you can't cut and paste from it. However, when the warning appears at the bottom of my window it appears with a little encircled x at the end. When I click on that the message goes away, As I said in the first post, the host lookup seems NOT to fail; my service is found; and, my mail is fetched. It is just mildly annoying and perhaps a warning of things to come. I am using Fedora 9 and on the Fedora mailing list there is some discussion of problems with the timing of NetworkManager. This evo warning and that issue may be related ?? -- Regards Bill; Fedora 9, Gnome 2.22.3 Evo.2.22.3.1, Emacs 22.2.1 ___ Evolution-list mailing list Evolution-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/evolution-list
Re: [Evolution] Sending mail to meeting attendees
On Tue, 2008-07-15 at 19:21 +0530, Suman Manjunath wrote: Please do file a feature request in bugzilla for this one.. (/me tempted to take it for a hack-week project.. so do CC me on that) http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=543110 I added you to the CC list (although it took me a few tries since it wanted your Novell address, not your gmail address :-)) ___ Evolution-list mailing list Evolution-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/evolution-list
Re: [Evolution] Is it possible to define some keyboard shortcut for Mark as Unread
Greetings, On Wed, 2008-07-09 at 09:06 -0430, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: The menu commands are all annotated with their equivalent keyboard accelerators, where applicable. I just looked at Message-Mark As- ... See also Help-Quick Reference for a printable subset of shortcuts. The online help presumably documents these things, but I don't know of a complete list of shortcuts anywhere. OT: in general the Evo documentation used to be atrocious and is now merely poor, e.g. there's no easy way to search the Evo docs without also searching the whole Gnome system, so though it's not bad as an introductory guide it's pretty useless as a reference. And ... is it possible to customize them? http://www.go-evolution.org/FAQ#How_can_I_change_my_keyboard_shortcuts.3F Knowing this, is there any way to create a short-cut that is a move of a message to a specific folder, as opposed to simply a generic invocation of the move dialog? I've done the former in ui/evolution-mail-message.xml 424a425,428 toolitem name=MessageMove verb= _label=Move pixtype=pixbuf/ and I find myself moving perhaps a third of a particular list's messages, into one particular (team-shared) mailbox, and instead of doing so in three clicks (bring up the move dialog, select where, and click move) I want to be able to do so in one click. Thanks, -dkap ___ Evolution-list mailing list Evolution-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/evolution-list
Re: [Evolution] Is it possible to define some keyboard shortcut for Mark as Unread
On Tue, 2008-07-15 at 22:47 -0400, Internaut at Large wrote: Greetings, On Wed, 2008-07-09 at 09:06 -0430, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: The menu commands are all annotated with their equivalent keyboard accelerators, where applicable. I just looked at Message-Mark As- ... See also Help-Quick Reference for a printable subset of shortcuts. The online help presumably documents these things, but I don't know of a complete list of shortcuts anywhere. OT: in general the Evo documentation used to be atrocious and is now merely poor, e.g. there's no easy way to search the Evo docs without also searching the whole Gnome system, so though it's not bad as an introductory guide it's pretty useless as a reference. And ... is it possible to customize them? http://www.go-evolution.org/FAQ#How_can_I_change_my_keyboard_shortcuts.3F Knowing this, is there any way to create a short-cut that is a move of a message to a specific folder, as opposed to simply a generic invocation of the move dialog? I've done the former in ui/evolution-mail-message.xml 424a425,428 toolitem name=MessageMove verb= _label=Move pixtype=pixbuf/ and I find myself moving perhaps a third of a particular list's messages, into one particular (team-shared) mailbox, and instead of doing so in three clicks (bring up the move dialog, select where, and click move) I want to be able to do so in one click. I don't know if it's possible to do directly i.e. without hacking Evo code. However a workaraound might be to use labels, i.e. mark the messages of interest with a specific label and then select them all with a Search in order to move them (you can set up a saved search to make it quick each time). poc ___ Evolution-list mailing list Evolution-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/evolution-list
