On Thu, 2003-06-26 at 11:06, Cabral, Carlson wrote: > Roland, > > Set your preferences to "Inline" or "Quoted" reply instead of "As > Attachment". That was an easy one! > > Regardinf the "unusability" of Evolution, it doesn't stop there: > > 1 - No POP mail downloading for some servers (I will beat on this one to > death or until it's fixed)
maybe you should be bugging your POP provider more? afterall, this is clearly a server bug, tho we *have* worked around it in CVS which will be available shortly as 1.4.1 I'm just sick and tired of getting blamed for this when it isn't even a bug in our software. > 2 - Another one I found out last night: when composing an e-mail message, > you can't simply drag and drop a file to attach to a message. All you you > get is the path where the file is. You have to click on the "Attach" icon on > the composer window and choose your file. Needless to say, this WORKED > before with Evo 1.2.x again, not a bug in our software... this is just poor design in gtk2 (nothing we can do about it). > > Also, I am not sure you noticed, but Evo 1.4.1 is taking just as long to be > released as any proprietary (namely M$) "patch". And yes, I am using Outlook > to compose this message because at work I can't do anything else. At least, > it works foro the most part. thanks for the kind understanding words. Jeff > > Cheers, > > Carlson > > -----Original Message----- > From: Roland Orre [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: June 26, 2003 10:56 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: [Evolution] Evolutiuon 1.4 unusable :( > > > Fortunately I didn't install evolution 1.4 on my main system. > > There are two issues which makes evolution 1.4 unusable, > both concerns the composer. > > 1) Emacs style editing keys in composer doesn't work. > (for someone having used emacs for the last 23 years, this > is VERY annoying). > > 2) When replying to mails, the whole message is considered one > "chunk" in a way. I can't insert and remove text between the > "> -lines" This makes replying to messages unusable. > > example: > > in a reply message like this, you may have issue one > here I reply to issue one. > > > and this is about issue two. > here I reply to issue two. > > This is very basic and fundamental, and in evolution 1.4 I can't edit the > mails in the way I want. To be able to reply to a mail I have to copy it to > emacs anyway, where I can edit it, and then send it back. > > A better idea then would maybe be to have the possibility to use emacsclient > for composing instead. > > Roland > > PS. of course, as this is open source (GPL?, didn't check) I could start my > own fork of (r)evolution... > > _______________________________________________ > evolution maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/evolution > _______________________________________________ > evolution maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/evolution -- Jeffrey Stedfast Evolution Hacker - Ximian, Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] - www.ximian.com _______________________________________________ evolution maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/evolution
