Bryan recently suggested using VFolders to keep track of unread emails. That was a GREAT suggestion Bryan! One that is working beautifully and keeping me from having to manually find unread messages in each of the folders to which my filters send them as a result of seemingly unreliable key presses and scroll bar shenanigens :).
Anyway I have a new interface quirk that I would surely appreciate similar input on how to get around from anyone that might have a viable solution. Specifically....I am focused, at least I think I am, on the pane containing message lines like From, To, etc.. In my Evolution the pane is in the upper right. The blue highlight bar is present over a message (at least in Gnome). Okay that's the background. Now I would like to be able to scroll down through the email, whose contents appear in the pane just below the aforementioned one, such that I could read through the email WITHOUT loosing my ability to traverse from one message to the next in the upper right pane previously mentioned. Currently the only way I can do that is to go over to my mouse, use the middle scroll wheel, scroll through my message and then come back to the keyboard to down arrow to the next message. Oh I think I can use the Tab key as well but since their is no clear indication of where I am focused by using the Tab key it's also frustrating to use that approach because sometimes tabbing ends up in places I did not intend to go. This is a major PITA for those of us who like to use the keyboard as much as possible without having to rely on the mouse. If you are on the computer as much as I am and end up using the mouse as much as I end up having to do, your mouse hand muscles can start to become quite painful after 8 or more hours of mousing around. Anyway I have tried all kinds of key combinations and nothing seems to work in terms of letting me scroll through a messages's contents while still able to use the down and up arrow keys to go to the next and previous messages. I mean why can't Evolution allow Ctrl-<downarrow> or something similar to allow that? Why must I have to go over and use the mouse again? Is there no workaround for this additional very annoying quirk? Better yet are there plans in the works to allow us to define our own keyboard shortcuts? Oh how I wish that someone on the interface team would be a keyboard oriented person! I say that because it seems unlikely that there is such a person on the interface team or else, if there is, that they don't have much say so. I hate to gripe about these interface quirks but they are really annoying and quite frankly, quite ridiculous. I'm not trying to be offensive. Just quite frustrated with Evolution's interface and how it forces me to work in a less efficient manner than I am used to. Does anyone have any suggestions for a work around over this latest quirk? I am all ears... Carlos _______________________________________________ evolution maillist - [email protected] http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/evolution
