hello, i am doing some minor dev stuff for balsa the past months and used some earlier versions of evolution cvs. and also followed the discussions made on the mailinglist. today i decided to try it out again to see how far it came since the older one was'nt really stable.
i must say that you guys did a really nice job on evolution and it will for sure get a wide userbase. keep on the cool work and keep gnome the best usable desktop around. now you guessed that this isn't the reason why i am writing these lines. i investigated into evolution for a while and this is what cames out. it would be cool if you guys could investigate into this and offer some solutions before official 1.0 release. some of these things may be a known issue already, some of these things may have been reported by others already. since i can't keep track on everything, please allow me to state my comments: gui issue: ���������� - i use sawfish (as probably many of you guys do) and am really a customize kinda person e.g. positioning windows on certain x/y locations and do a custom dimension on them. well now the first time evolution came up, the 'splash' window comes up centered on my working window. now i have placed evolution on the top right corner of my window and adjusted it's dimensions and x/y position. after closing evolution and restarting it, i realized that the splash window follows the last stored x/y origin of the main evolution window. in this case the splash window moves up right to the same origin as the last saved window position. well this isn't a big deal but it would be nice to have splashscreens behave somekinda consistant e.g. to gnome's splashscreen (no border (window decorations) and always centered). security issue: ��������������� - one comment about directory and file security.. i know that the evolution homedir is set to 700 but anyways. it could happen one day that the user sets the permissions to 755 by mistake. this allows other users to access the directory and read private email. since a lot of mbox files are set to 644 (imported ones luckely to 600) but new created ones like trash, draft, sent etc has 644. same situation for the addressbook... dunno if someone mentioned this before.. i had to set a lot of stuff manually by hand. it would be fine if evolution would take care of correct flags e.g. for the PASSWORD file, for the mbox files and for the addressbook... usability issue: ���������������� - another thing that i saw and think is a bit unintuitive: when writing an email and you choose some person from the addressbook, only his name e.g. 'Ali Baba' show up in the to: field. now if the person has 3-4 different email addresses, you don't see which one is used. i figured out after a while that pressing right mouse over the to: field brings up an popup menu where you can select the right address. anyways. for better visibility is there a way to show the complete EMAIL address in the TO: field ? same for CC to more people ? -- Name....: Ali Akcaagac Status..: Student Of Computer & Economic Science E-Mail..: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] WWW.....: http://www.fh-wilhelmshaven.de/~akcaagaa _______________________________________________ evolution-hackers maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/evolution-hackers
