I can't speak for the developers but I can add comments to the
mail/shell issues:
> 1. Focus. something seems unintuitive (at least for me) in
> regards to focus in Evolution. While I usually agree that not
> everything should be a la Microsoft and that not all dialogs
> should be modal, I think the focus should have a stack kind
> of memory. If I don't specifically click on a lower dialog,
> when the focus is brought back it should go the the highest
> dialog on the stack and if I close that window on the one
> before that. The one that dialog originated from
I've got a feeling that is a window manager issue.
> 2. While I love Evolution and will promote it at my customers'
> as a replacement to Mozilla mail and balsa as soon as 1.0 is
> out, I am afraid that some instability issues might persist
> (which is completly normal). The fact that there is no easy
> way other than killev to restore it to a stable state is far
> from being acceptable. As you can imagine this is not
> possible at our customers' as we don't give access to shell
> to our end-users as they will not know what to do with it
> anyway. So this is something that needs to be addressed
> before deployment. Note that I could make a shell that killev
> before running evolution but what about oaf-slay ?
My "Evolution" button on my panel runs the command "killev ; evolution".
> 3. Have copy works from the message preview pane and other
> read-only dialog. (At least disable the menu option if you
> cannot copy). And have paste works in all fields (like the
> search criteria edit box). PS: Whatever is copied from the
> preview pane can be paste on an xterm but cannot be paste
> anywhere in Evolution. I just don't undertand why !
Are you using control-x/c/v or highlight/middle-click? I always
highlight to copy, and middle-click to paste and have never found an
instance of non-pasting.
> 6. Multiple selection of messages. Wish I could use the control
> key to select non adjacent messages. Maybe there is a way but
> I don;t know it.
Control-click.
> 7. View shortcut bar and folder list width size.
IIRC, a known bug.
> 8. If there is only one folder under a header in the folder
> list, make the header the folder. For example, I have an IMAP
> folder for the Evolution mailing list. I am only subscribing
> to the Inbox of that folder. In the folder list it shows,
> Evolution then underneath INBOX. I wish it would just show
> one line named Evolution -> Inbox or something like that. As
> I have an IMAP folder for each mailbox I have it would save a
> lot of real estate and I would not need to scroll that much.
Weird IMAP behaviour, there should only be one INBOX. What IMAP server?
> 9. When loading evolution, if there are messages that were saved
> automatically before the last crash, let us know right away.
Good point - I think this should be in bugzilla.
> 12. Be able to see if a message has been forwarded or replied to
> and to whom. Would be nice to see the response underneath the
> originating message.
I'm not sure what you mean here.
> COMPOSE
> -------
>
> 1. When replying to an e-mail, the default reply address should
> be the one defined for that folder (very important when you
> have a lot of e-mail addresses like me).
That used to work, but broke recently.
> 2. Have spelling working in snapshots by default.
In Red Carpet get aspell/pspell/gnome-spell and it works.
> 4. Set status flag, like important, for your review, please
> reply, confidential etc ...
These flags are non-standard so cannot be guaranteed to work. However,
IMAP at least does support custom flags. Evolution is in feature freeze
however, so I suggest filing WISHLIST bug.
The key point is that the developers do not read all of the messages,
and even if they do a bug report they see may not get fixed. If you
find a bug or have a feature request, it should be filed in BugZilla at
bugzilla.ximian.com.
Regards,
Ross
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