on 1/25/05 5:52 PM, Raul Gutierrez at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > My hopes for Spotlight + Entourage: > > 1. That I will be able to use spotlight to search individual emails in the > Entourage database.
Me three :-) > 2. That within entourage searching will now be near instant even with a > relatively large database with tens of thousands of messages. Ditto here. > 3. That within entourage I can search for multiple words or multiple partial > words. (For example lets say I want to search for emails that contain the > words Entourage and Spotlight. Right now if I type Entou into the search box I > get emails with entourage but if I type entou spot I get nothing as it is > actually searching for a string "entou spot". More complex search patterns are probably only valuable to a few, but here is hoping for something like regex support in searches. > My hopes for Tiger + Entourage: > > 1. That syncing with the system-wide address book will be seamless. I would have to say, not likely to happen, ever. There are 3rd party tools that can do this now, and do it well. > 2. That syncing with ical will be seamless. Also not likely, there are 3rd part tools to do this now, and they also do it very well. > 3. That outgoing image attachments are always shown as thumbnails. Not all that important to me. > 4. That system-wide font smoothing prefs are respected in list items. I could ask for a font overhaul, there is something wonky about how Entourage deals with fonts in general. > 5. That I have an option to keep the translucent popup notification window > present until I click it away. Hmm, interesting idea. I personally hope that Entourage moves to a more unified messaging system like growl. > 6. That there is a better minimized view of the main window. Not sure I follow this one, if you mean the dock icon, then I have to say, matters little to me. > 7. That exchange support is seamless including calendar issues. w00t! > 8. That I'll be able to customize the toolbars and icons getting rid of stuff > I never use. Yeah, that's a big yes on that one. You can hack them away in resedit now though. > 9. That folders show the sum of all folders inside instead of being considered > a separate folder. I will pass, this would probably slow down Entourage even more, there are applesripts that can tell you this now, and you only need to run those as needed. > 10. That I never get one of those heartstopping 'you have to rebuild your > database' messages. :-) Nice suggestions, thanks. -- ------------------------------------------------------------- Scott Haneda Tel: 415.898.2602 <http://www.newgeo.com> Fax: 313.557.5052 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Novato, CA U.S.A. -- To unsubscribe: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> archives: <http://www.mail-archive.com/entourage-talk%40lists.letterrip.com/> old-archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/entourage-talk%40lists.boingo.com/>
