Re: [Evolution] "Unable to open address book" on half of local address books.

2012-03-19 Thread Nick Jenkins
> $ gconftool-2 --get /apps/evolution/addressbook/sources | grep file: > which should usually return no lines, but for you, I believe, it'll > return 6 hits It did indeed! > as for you it should be just about getting rid of "file://" and > replace it with "local:", and bonus points if you get r

Re: [Evolution] Email fonts and formatting and displays Oh, My!

2012-03-19 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Mon, 2012-03-19 at 13:41 -0400, Adam Tauno Williams wrote: > Sometimes threading gets broken by idjits who still don't know how to > use e-mail; but there is nothing the client can do about that. Spell check: the word is "eejits" :-) poc ___ evolut

Re: [Evolution] Email fonts and formatting and displays Oh, My!

2012-03-19 Thread Adam Tauno Williams
On Mon, 2012-03-19 at 11:59 -0500, Dan Saint-Andre wrote: > > > On Mon, 2012-03-19 at 15:25 +, evolution-list-requ...@gnome.org > wrote: > > Message: 2 > > Date: Mon, 19 Mar 2012 14:13:52 + > > From: Pete Biggs > > To: evolution-list@gnome.org > > Subject: Re: [Evolution] How to display

Re: [Evolution] Email fonts and formatting and displays Oh, My!

2012-03-19 Thread Matthew Barnes
On Mon, 2012-03-19 at 18:33 +0100, Andre Klapper wrote: > On Mon, 2012-03-19 at 11:59 -0500, Dan Saint-Andre wrote: > > I routinely have troubles with email sent through various clients or > > servers -- typically MAC or > > Win-dose but there are others -- where I cannot see attachments or a > > "

Re: [Evolution] Email fonts and formatting and displays Oh, My!

2012-03-19 Thread Andre Klapper
On Mon, 2012-03-19 at 11:59 -0500, Dan Saint-Andre wrote: > With the above posting as a backdrop, can someone tell me where to > find a discussion > of the whole email file format, content display, "envelop" and related > family of issues? The origins are described in http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/

Re: [Evolution] Email fonts and formatting and displays Oh, My!

2012-03-19 Thread Reid Thompson
On Mon, 2012-03-19 at 11:59 -0500, Dan Saint-Andre wrote: > > > With the above posting as a backdrop, can someone tell me where to > find a discussion > of the whole email file format, content display, "envelop" and related > family of issues? > > > I know that "rich text" and "web page" format

Re: [Evolution] evolution is not reliable

2012-03-19 Thread Andre Klapper
On Mon, 2012-03-19 at 10:00 -0500, Dan Saint-Andre wrote: > For my money, I'd like to see the Help-->About and similar > descriptions include some > mention of where the app stores its data. Maybe not the whole "yellow > brick road" > but at least a mention of where to find the first few bricks.

Re: [Evolution] where are the details and messages stored?

2012-03-19 Thread Andre Klapper
Hi, On Mon, 2012-03-19 at 12:06 -0500, Dan Saint-Andre wrote: > On Mon, 2012-03-19 at 15:25 +, evolution-list-requ...@gnome.org > wrote: > > Message: 4 > > Date: Mon, 19 Mar 2012 11:08:45 -0400 > > From: Matthew Barnes > > To: evolution-list@gnome.org > > Subject: Re: [Evolution] evolution is

[Evolution] where are the details and messages stored?

2012-03-19 Thread Dan Saint-Andre
On Mon, 2012-03-19 at 15:25 +, evolution-list-requ...@gnome.org wrote: > Message: 4 > Date: Mon, 19 Mar 2012 11:08:45 -0400 > From: Matthew Barnes > To: evolution-list@gnome.org > Subject: Re: [Evolution] evolution is not reliable > Message-ID: <1332169725.24411.40.camel@localhost.localdoma

[Evolution] Email fonts and formatting and displays Oh, My!

2012-03-19 Thread Dan Saint-Andre
On Mon, 2012-03-19 at 15:25 +, evolution-list-requ...@gnome.org wrote: > Message: 2 > Date: Mon, 19 Mar 2012 14:13:52 + > From: Pete Biggs > To: evolution-list@gnome.org > Subject: Re: [Evolution] How to display an email in a fixed-width > font? > Message-ID: <1332166432.15685.3

Re: [Evolution] evolution is not reliable

2012-03-19 Thread Adam Tauno Williams
> > I've puzzled by how often the where-is-my-data question comes up. > > People - STOP SNEAKING AROUND UNDER AND BEHIND YOUR APPLICATIONS. > > Just let the applications do it. > For my money, I'd like to see the Help-->About and similar > descriptions include some > In defense of "going behind t

Re: [Evolution] evolution is not reliable

2012-03-19 Thread Pete Biggs
I should also add .. > > For my money, I'd like to see the Help-->About and similar descriptions > include some > mention of where the app stores its data. Maybe not the whole "yellow brick > road" > but at least a mention of where to find the first few bricks. It may not be in the Help-> A

Re: [Evolution] evolution is not reliable

2012-03-19 Thread Pete Biggs
> or stuck with where the app developers decided it belongs because they know > best. Compare what you've said above with this v > Now it seems that the details are being made subordinate to the desktop > environment > according to some awful logic. What you are effectively saying

Re: [Evolution] evolution is not reliable

2012-03-19 Thread Matthew Barnes
On Mon, 2012-03-19 at 10:00 -0500, Dan Saint-Andre wrote: > {rant} > As it is, things keep changing so rapidly that it is nearly > impossible to stay aware of what the conventions are. > $HOME/dot-something files and $HOME/dot-something.d folders were > fine for decades as the convention for whe

Re: [Evolution] evolution is not reliable

2012-03-19 Thread Dan Saint-Andre
On Sun, 2012-03-18 at 21:42 +, evolution-list-requ...@gnome.org wrote: > Message: 4 > Date: Sun, 18 Mar 2012 13:12:01 -0400 > From: Adam Tauno Williams > To: evolution-list@gnome.org > Subject: Re: [Evolution] evolution is not reliable > Message-ID: <2810a536-e5bc-4803-b000-890b54aa1...@ema

Re: [Evolution] How to display an email in a fixed-width font?

2012-03-19 Thread Pete Biggs
On Mon, 2012-03-19 at 12:57 +, Graham Murray wrote: > Running Evolution 3.2.3 on Gnome 3.2.1, there is an Evolution preference > (under mail preference) to set the fonts used for 'Standard' and 'Fixed > Width', but how do you view an email using the fixed width font? Some > emails include table

[Evolution] How to display an email in a fixed-width font?

2012-03-19 Thread Graham Murray
Running Evolution 3.2.3 on Gnome 3.2.1, there is an Evolution preference (under mail preference) to set the fonts used for 'Standard' and 'Fixed Width', but how do you view an email using the fixed width font? Some emails include tables etc that are spaced for a fixed width font and do not line up

Re: [Evolution] "Unable to open address book" on half of local address books.

2012-03-19 Thread Milan Crha
On Sat, 2012-03-17 at 19:18 +1100, Nick Jenkins wrote: > Sometime after I upgraded from Evo 2.32 to Evo 3.2.2, I noticed that > there are some local address books that I could no longer view. > Specifically, when clicking on them, it doesn't show any contacts, but > it shows the following error mes