Re: [Evolution] yet another newb question

2009-12-02 Thread Nick Jenkins
> Sorry to jump into someone elses thread, but this reminds me of a > feature request. > > I'd like a "paste as plain text" option for Evolution. > > SHIFT-CTRL-V. I end up pasting into a text editor first and then > recopy & paste to remove Evolutions crazy formatting. > > BTW, this helps some

Re: [Evolution] How do you install 2.29 on Ubuntu 9.10?

2009-12-02 Thread Paul Smith
On Wed, 2009-12-02 at 14:07 -0800, Bryan Karlan wrote: > I want to try 2.29 to see what it has improved upon. I have little > experience with Linux. I have Ubuntu 9.10. I have downloaded the > file and have extracted it. However, I find no install or setup file > as you would in Windows. I sti

[Evolution] Sending pgp signed msg with attachment locks up Evo

2009-12-02 Thread Chris
Mandriva 2010, Gnome 2.28, Evolution 2.28.1. When attempting to send a pgp signed message with an attachment whether I've previously entered my passphrase or not Evo will lockup and the only way out is to kill it. There are no issues with sending a msg with attachments if I don't sign it nor if I s

Re: [Evolution] How do you install 2.29 on Ubuntu 9.10?

2009-12-02 Thread Ray
On Wed, 2009-12-02 at 14:07 -0800, Bryan Karlan wrote: > I want to try 2.29 to see what it has improved upon. I have little > experience with Linux. I have Ubuntu 9.10. I have downloaded the > file and have extracted it. However, I find no install or setup file > as you would in Windows. I sti

Re: [Evolution] How do you install 2.29 on Ubuntu 9.10?

2009-12-02 Thread Pete Biggs
On Wed, 2009-12-02 at 14:07 -0800, Bryan Karlan wrote: > I want to try 2.29 to see what it has improved upon. I have little > experience with Linux. I'm afraid those two statements are incompatible! As others have said, the odd point releases of most Gnome software are development versions and a

Re: [Evolution] How do you install 2.29 on Ubuntu 9.10?

2009-12-02 Thread C de-Avillez
On Thu, 2009-12-03 at 06:49 +0800, Ng Oon-Ee wrote: > On Wed, 2009-12-02 at 14:07 -0800, Bryan Karlan wrote: > > I want to try 2.29 to see what it has improved upon. I have little > > experience with Linux. I have Ubuntu 9.10. I have downloaded the > > file and have extracted it. However, I fin

Re: [Evolution] How do you install 2.29 on Ubuntu 9.10?

2009-12-02 Thread Steve Carl
There is not a direct analog to downloading source and compiling it (which you would have to do in this case) and what you describe in Windows. For windows, someone would have already compiled it and wrapped the installer around it: For Linux, that is what the Distro does when they create the .deb/

Re: [Evolution] How do you install 2.29 on Ubuntu 9.10?

2009-12-02 Thread Ng Oon-Ee
On Wed, 2009-12-02 at 14:07 -0800, Bryan Karlan wrote: > I want to try 2.29 to see what it has improved upon. I have little > experience with Linux. I have Ubuntu 9.10. I have downloaded the > file and have extracted it. However, I find no install or setup file > as you would in Windows. I sti

Re: [Evolution] How do you install 2.29 on Ubuntu 9.10?

2009-12-02 Thread Kip Warner
On Wed, 2009-12-02 at 22:07 +, evolution-list-requ...@gnome.org wrote: > I want to try 2.29 to see what it has improved upon. I have > little > experience with Linux. I have Ubuntu 9.10. I have downloaded > the file > and have extracted it. However, I

[Evolution] How do you install 2.29 on Ubuntu 9.10?

2009-12-02 Thread Bryan Karlan
I want to try 2.29 to see what it has improved upon. I have little experience with Linux. I have Ubuntu 9.10. I have downloaded the file and have extracted it. However, I find no install or setup file as you would in Windows. I still can't understand why in Linux such simple things are made so

Re: [Evolution] Date formats

2009-12-02 Thread John Lange
On Wed, 2009-12-02 at 14:02 -0500, Matthew Barnes wrote: > On Wed, 2009-12-02 at 12:29 -0600, John Lange wrote: > > In every programming language I've used, plus things like OpenOffice > > mentioned above, the number of formatting options for dates and times > > is mind numbing. So, I would have to

Re: [Evolution] Date formats

2009-12-02 Thread Matthew Barnes
On Wed, 2009-12-02 at 12:29 -0600, John Lange wrote: > In every programming language I've used, plus things like OpenOffice > mentioned above, the number of formatting options for dates and times > is mind numbing. So, I would have to think that "yes", there are > many-many variations. Given that o

Re: [Evolution] Date formats

2009-12-02 Thread John Lange
On Wed, 2009-12-02 at 13:06 -0500, Matthew Barnes wrote: > > You can write there almost anything. It's using strftime internally, > > thus it understands all format specifiers from it, plus a special one > > "%ad". There is an obvious lack of information in user docs, though > > I'm not sure whethe

Re: [Evolution] Date formats

2009-12-02 Thread Matthew Barnes
> You can write there almost anything. It's using strftime internally, > thus it understands all format specifiers from it, plus a special one > "%ad". There is an obvious lack of information in user docs, though > I'm not sure whether a regular user would understand all those %.. tags. Speaking o

Re: [Evolution] Date formats

2009-12-02 Thread Milan Crha
On Wed, 2009-12-02 at 15:50 +, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > I hadn't noticed it was editable. That's good. Not sure about the %ad > format though (I can see it tries to be smart about "today", > "yesterday" > etc. but for dates further in the past it seems to fall back to one of > the standard

Re: [Evolution] Date formats

2009-12-02 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Wed, 2009-12-02 at 13:47 +0100, Milan Crha wrote: > Hi, > > On Wed, 2009-12-02 at 10:44 +, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > > I see that in 2.28 Edit->Preferences->Mail Preferences->Headers now > > allows you to select alternative date formats for displayed message > > headers (maybe it's

Re: [Evolution] Date formats

2009-12-02 Thread Milan Crha
Hi, On Wed, 2009-12-02 at 10:44 +, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > I see that in 2.28 Edit->Preferences->Mail Preferences->Headers now > allows you to select alternative date formats for displayed message > headers (maybe it's been around for a while but I'd never noticed it > before). I

[Evolution] Date formats

2009-12-02 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
I see that in 2.28 Edit->Preferences->Mail Preferences->Headers now allows you to select alternative date formats for displayed message headers (maybe it's been around for a while but I'd never noticed it before). Two things occur to me: 1) It would be nice to be able to add more formats, e.g. I l

Re: [Evolution] Custom Headers

2009-12-02 Thread Kip Warner
On Wed, 2009-12-02 at 11:07 +0530, Akhil Laddha wrote: > Second problem has been fixed in 2.29.2 > https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=570835 Thank you Akhil. I'll apply the patch. -- Kip Warner -- Software Developer President & CEO Kshatra Corp. OpenPGP encrypted/signed mail preferred