Hi all, I have been playing with Evolution almost since the beginnings, but it's only recently that I have switched from Mozilla Messenger to Evo on my main Linux box (Evolution 1.4.4 on Mandrake Linux 9.2). Of course it was only after I started using Evo day after day with a relatively big message base (about 15-20.000 messages) that I started noticing things. Here are my thoughts, mainly about things IMHO could work better; note that I didn't read all of the FAQ, so if something is nicely explained there just pass me the usual RTFM line ;)
1. I noticed that Evo is fast, really faster than MM on my 2200 Athlon box; memory usage, OTOH, is much higher than I expected/remembered: is it normal to reach 60Mb? why does it seem to increase with time? Fortunately I have plenty of memory, but it was a mild shock noticing that Evo starts a session with about 31-2 megs (in itself much more than I remembered) and it might end up with almost 60 MB: is this related to the amount of mails stored in the database? and/or with the fact that I use spamassassin to check incoming mails? 2. The UI is OK, or I'm getting used to it (waiting for Evo 2.0), but there are some quirks: why can't I change accelerators/shortcuts as with other GNOME apps? f.i. I just had the habit to press N to go to the next unread message, with Evo it's a rather unintuitive ], and I have to press two keys; so I'd like to change the shortcut, but it seems to be impossible. 3. Again on the subject of moving to the next unread message, using the space bar should do just that (or at least move to the next message); and when there aren't unread messages left, it would be nice to move to the next folder (MM asks you if you want to do that, actually). 4. Threads aren't displayed very well: messages that should belong to the same thread are dispersed according to their date in many different threads. This is quite annoying and, in some ways, unpredictable (i.e. in certain folders threads behave better than in others), is this a problem specific to the last Evo releases? 5. Another (minor) issue with threads: the grey/white line coloring is great when order messages without threading, but is slightly confusing when you use threads; it would be nice to differentiate between differents threads alternating white for *all* messages that belong to a thread, grey for all those that belong to the next one, and so on. Don't know if the text widget allows this. 6. One last note about threads (I promise :) : add a "Mark all as read in thread" command, would be a real time saver. 7. I have lots of folders and, as a consequence, lots of folder icons in the folder bar: "special" (in the sense of "not a folder") icons like Contacts, Calendar are scarcely visible among all other folder icons; as the shortcut bar won't be there in Evo 2.0, take this into consideration when deciding how and where to draw those special icons. 8. Import routines have their own quirks, for instance I had to import manually all of my Mozilla folders because only Pine (?) was listed in the "general" import dialog; and when importing Mozilla addressbooks, I had to specify the format once or twice, because it wasn't recognized automatically. 9. Why is a HTML commands tool bar present in the mail composing window even if I chose to not compose mails in HTML format? 10. IMAP mail seems to have some problems (with this versions), but others have already mentioned them on the list, so I won't go there again; is there a way to have Evo automatically download all of the messages available on the remote folder? That's it for now, keep up the good work! Ciao -- Roberto Rosselli Del Turco roberto.rossellidelturco at unito.it Dipartimento di Scienze rosselli at ling.unipi.it del Linguaggio Then spoke the thunder DA Universita' di Torino Datta: what have we given? (TSE) Hige sceal the heardra, heorte the cenre, mod sceal the mare, the ure maegen litlath. (Maldon 312-3) _______________________________________________ evolution maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/evolution
