On Tue, 2002-11-19 at 07:11, Russell Stuart wrote: > Last week I made the move from Outlook to Evolution 1.2. I thought I > would give some feed back on things I am having difficulty adjusting > to. > > - There is no way I have found to do the equivalent of "Shift-Delete" > in Outlook. Shift-Delete deletes a message permanently, without > moving it the Trash folder. AFAICT, in Evolution there is no way to > expunging a particular message. The fastest way I have found is to > copy the message(s) concerned to a temporary folder, delete it, then > expunge that folder. Messy.
I've certainly never seen this as a problem. > - Shift-Ctrl-M is modal in Evolution, in Outlook it isn't. This > means that in Outlook I can press Shift-Ctrl-M regardless of > where I am. In Evolution it won't work if I am in a mail folder > (such as the Inbox), or if I am in the composer. I have found > that having it modal in Evolution means I don't use it. It is > easier to use the GUI because I don't have to ask myself "it this > going to work here?". Dont even know what this is. But that doesn't sound like a showstopper. > - When reading mail the ',' and '.' rarely seem to work. I have not > been able to find a pattern as to when they do and don't. Also, > it would be nice if shortcuts like that appeared in the menu. It > means you can learn about their existence without reading the help. > That is a seems to be an attribute of Microsoft products - you can > use them without referring to the help by just using the hints the > GUI gives you. They were changed to [ and ]. They do show up in the menu as a shortcut. > - A minor thing - but in Outlook I grew accustomed to sitting down > in the morning and going though my mail leaving a couple for later > and deleting the rest. When I got the to end the message window > would close, bringing a nice satisfying end to the morning ritual. > In Evolution it does not close, instead it displays previous > message - effectively reversing direction. I find that jarring. *shrug* > - Read receipts (aka Disposition Notifications). Obviously you guys > don't consider them important, this being the second major release > and they are still not there. I do - enough to spend a pleasant > hour or so going through the source finding a way to turn them on > permanently. I suspect a lot of others in corporate environments > like mine place the same importance on them I do. Its not like its > hard. There is no standard for implementing this. It wouldn't be much use adding it if most mailers dont support it and subseqeuntly it doesn't work for most users. > - When a Yes/No/Cancel confirmation dialogue box is displayed, I am > used to being able to press 'Y'/'N'/Escape. There does not seem > to be any way to press 'Y'/'N', except by using the mouse. (Maybe > this is a GTK thing?) Anyway, I miss being able to use the > keyboard. Thats gtk mostly. _______________________________________________ evolution maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/evolution
