On Thu, 2003-07-10 at 23:33, David B. Ritch wrote: > I would be sorry to see the shortcut bar go away. Cleaning up the > navigation issues will help a great deal, but I have another issue, as > well. In particular, I have my incoming email sorted into a bunch of > folders, and have these folders sorted in an appropriate way. There are > a couple of folders that I need to monitor for incoming email pretty > constantly, and there are a couple others that change. I have handled > this be using shortcuts to those that I need to watch at any given > time. It is not clear to me how I could have the same functionality - > select a small number of email folders and monitor them for new messages > - with the proposed new GUI.
Yeah, that might be an issue. I wonder if there is a better way to solve that than the shortcut bar though... The shortcut bar seems like a pretty overenginnered solution for that specific problem to me, since it's more of a navigational tool than a monitoring tool. For example, if the purpose is just to have the unread count for a bunch of folders always visible in some spot, then shortcut grouping isn't really needed... Also the layout is suboptimal since it takes a lot of space for the icons, which is good for clicking but not necessary if all you want is the unread count. One possibility could be to keep a list of favorite folders under the main folder tree. However, Outlook 2003 does that, and I don't like it since it makes the left pane extremely crowded and it's not obvious what is going on at first glance. Another thing we could do is to allow the user to customize the order of the folders through drag and drop, instead of hardcording it to alphabetical order. That's been a wishlist item since the early days of the project, and might fix your problem as well? -- Ettore _______________________________________________ evolution-hackers maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/evolution-hackers
