On Tue, 2005-05-24 at 09:37 -0400, Jeremey Wise wrote: > I have updated my laptop to SuSE Pro 9.3 and am finding many querks > which I would like to see if it is a process issue / change or a bug. > Here are my evolution related issues. > > 1) File associations in my SuSE 9.2 (which I believe was evo 2.0.x) > worked better. For example .rtf (rich text is only associated with > kwrite instead of MSWord under Crossover (which it use to do fine) and I > don't know how to fix this and ohter associations which no longer work.
Evolution doesn't touch file associations, they are setup system-wide, Evolution just uses them. So this is a distro problem. > > 2) I use to be able to accept a meeting request sent to me and it would > be added into my Exchange calendar by selecting "calendar" with RSVP > then remove the RSVP and change the calendar to 'personal' which would > duplicate it into my personal calendar which gets synced to my palm > pilot. Now I have to accept it into the exchange "calendar" then open > and copy it manually into my personal so I can have it archived, > offline, and synced. The old way was better... or at least I could get > it to work, now it is far more cumbersom. I have no idea about this one (I don't work on connector) > > 3) For those who remember me on the list I was having to be pushed out > of evolution due to two things not in evolution critical to my us > instead of Outlook (I have to run both in parallel to do my day job). Is > their any hope for: > a) "Reply on behalf of" -> ie I work out of a common mailbox and > reply > on behalf of to ensure the responses seem to come from that mailbox. there's no feature request for this in bugzilla tht I'm aware of > b) Viewing of "catagories" -> not flags but the Outlook > catagories. I have no idea what this is... you mean like "Flag for Followup" stuff? > They are now setting emails into catagories via these flag options such > as "SAN Design Consultation" or "VIP" or "Waiting vendor response" which > now I have to run Outlook to view the state of requests in the box to > find out what is the status of the email. > > 3) I have submited a bug against meetings being accepted seems to crash > evolution. Stability seems to have stepped backwards. Is it posssible > that this is a migration issue? I copied over my .gconf .evolution > directories from a USB backup drive after a fresh install. When it > started I had a directory which barked about errors with folder > "JJ03604" (my quote number / folder) having errors after index. The > folder was empty so it deleted the data and it was a small request so I > just emailed the design /notes back to myself to reinstate the data but > if it would have been a large design I may have had a major issue. Any > comments on importation or migration best practices? > > 4) The migration some how lost the settings for automatic lookup to > LDAP / AD. The settings all imported correctly for everything but name > lookup. > > 5) I keep trying to change the default "sent" "draft" location of my > exchange account to be local so I have a local replica so if I am on the > road I have archive of all emails I sent (no to mention corp polocy of > delete after 90days is not acceptable to me). Evolution seems to save it > ok but next time I open evolutin it sets it back to the > "personal/drafts" "personal/sent" which stores in in exchange mailbox. > Is their another / better way to do this or a way to get evolution to > keep this from changing? hmmm, somehow it's not getting saved in gconf I guess? make sure you have write permissions to the entire ~/.gconf directory and each of the files. if those are all writable, then I have no idea what the problem is... (i.e. gconf vs evo bug) Jeff _______________________________________________ evolution maillist - [email protected] http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/evolution
