Re: [Evolution] moving around inside Evolution
On 18 Jun 2010, at 16:05, Adam Tauno Williams wrote: This works most of the time, but it is possible to have Evolution *window* have the focus yet no *pane* have focus in which case F6 doesn't do anything. This would be considered an accessibility issue, so please consider reporting it as a bug. One element in the focused window should always have, and clearly show, keyboard focus. Cheeri, Calum. -- CALUM BENSON, Interaction Designer Oracle Corporation Ireland Ltd. mailto:calum.ben...@oracle.com Solaris Desktop Team http://blogs.sun.com/calum +353 1 819 9771 Any opinions are personal and not necessarily those of Oracle Corp. ___ evolution-list mailing list evolution-list@gnome.org To change your list options or unsubscribe, visit ... http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/evolution-list
Re: [Evolution] Feedback requested on Ctrl-s as shortcut to save draft, rather than ctrl-shift-s
On 16 Feb 2010, at 04:30, Andrew Cowie wrote: On Tue, 2010-02-16 at 15:02 +1100, Nick Jenkins wrote: How do people feel about swapping these shortcuts, so that save draft becomes ctrl+s ? That's sounds excellent. We're so used to tapping Ctrl+S for casual saves of work-in-progress that it would be less jarring to momentarily (and unintentionally) create a draft than it is to get a GtkFileChooser up asking us where we want to save ... save? Save what? Agreed. Ctrl-S is pretty standard for Save as Draft on other mail clients, too. As for save to disk, that doesn't even need an accelerator, frankly. Hmm, maybe not. But Ctrl-Shift-S isn't an uncommon shortcut for this function in other mail clients too (e.g. Mail.app on OS X -- well okay, they use Cmd-Shift-S, of course), so I wouldn't have a great problem with keeping it around either. Cheeri, Calum. -- CALUM BENSON, Interaction Designer Sun Microsystems Ireland mailto:calum.ben...@sun.comOpenSolaris Desktop Team http://blogs.sun.com/calum +353 1 819 9771 Any opinions are personal and not necessarily those of Sun Microsystems ___ Evolution-list mailing list Evolution-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/evolution-list
Re: [Evolution] evolution systray
On 14 Aug 2008, at 17:10, tim wrote: i want to say my hat's off to you guys and all you do. i have an idea for the next update of evolution... could you make it so when i close it the program still runs in the systray? i like deluge because it minimizes to the systray and pidgin for the same reason. even rhythmbox too. everything runs great on the program; that's just a feature i am looking forward to. Note that minimising to system tray (at least by using the standard minimise or close buttons) is a behaviour rather frowned upon by GNOME's usability folks, however :) Minimise buttons should minimise, and close buttons should close. If you want to add a button that does something else, then fine, do that and call it something else. But please don't make the minimise or close buttons do things they're not supposed to... Cheeri, Calum. -- CALUM BENSON, Usability Engineer Sun Microsystems Ireland mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]GNOME Desktop Team http://blogs.sun.com/calum +353 1 819 9771 Any opinions are personal and not necessarily those of Sun Microsystems ___ Evolution-list mailing list Evolution-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/evolution-list
Re: [Evolution] Is there a command for undo in Evo?
On 21 Oct 2007, at 22:06, Dinbandhu wrote: It is surprising to hear that no such capability was included from the start. Until I switched over to Linux/Evo around 5 months ago, I was using Win98 with Eudora Light which is email software from 1997. And even that had it. Do you think it was an oversight perhaps, that they forgot to include it, or rather an intentional decision to leave out? Sadly, an all-too-common oversight in the older GNOME apps-- Nautilus doesn't have one either, for example. It's almost impossible to successfully retro-fit an Undo framework to an existing app, though, sadly. Roll on Evolution 3.0 :) Cheeri, Calum. -- CALUM BENSON, Usability Engineer Sun Microsystems Ireland mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]GNOME Desktop Team http://blogs.sun.com/calum +353 1 819 9771 Any opinions are personal and not necessarily those of Sun Microsystems ___ Evolution-list mailing list Evolution-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/evolution-list
Re: [Evolution] Filters not working
On Mon, 2007-11-19 at 01:48 -0700, Sankar P wrote: On Sun, 2007-11-18 at 15:04 +, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: Sankar P wrote: As others have mentioned more than once, it would be useful to have an explicit Synch the current folder state button (perhaps as a variant of Send/Receive). Double-clicking the folder you are currently reading will do this for you. Is this a trick or a feature? If it's a trick I don't want to rely on it for future versions. If it's a feature we can conclude that there is in fact no reason there can't be a button or other explicit action for it, right? It might even get documented some day. It is a feature. In that case, Refresh ought to be the first item on a folder's right-click menu, according to the HIG: http://library.gnome.org/devel/hig-book/stable/menus-types.html.en#menu-type-popup Cheeri, Calum. -- CALUM BENSON, Usability Engineer Sun Microsystems Ireland mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]GNOME Desktop Group http://ie.sun.com +353 1 819 9771 Any opinions are personal and not necessarily those of Sun Microsystems ___ Evolution-list mailing list Evolution-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/evolution-list
Re: [Evolution] How to write in letters that have come in the In-Box
On Thu, 2007-08-16 at 00:59 -0400, Dinbandhu wrote: Is there a way in Evolution to write notes for myself in letters that others have written to me? Not really, that I can think of... you could drag it to your Drafts folder and edit it there (then drag it back to the original folder afterwards), but that will change the timestamp. Cheeri, Calum. -- CALUM BENSON, Usability Engineer Sun Microsystems Ireland mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]GNOME Desktop Group http://ie.sun.com +353 1 819 9771 Any opinions are personal and not necessarily those of Sun Microsystems ___ Evolution-list mailing list Evolution-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/evolution-list
Re: [Evolution] Message reader opens at bottom of message
On Sat, 2007-07-28 at 18:31 +0100, Pete Biggs wrote: It's called 'Caret Mode' - press F7 to toggle it. No, I don't know what use it is either! It makes the preview pane more accessible to screenreader users. (I still don't believe that those users want messages to scroll to the bottom first either, though.) Cheeri, Calum. -- CALUM BENSON, Usability Engineer Sun Microsystems Ireland mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]GNOME Desktop Group http://ie.sun.com +353 1 819 9771 Any opinions are personal and not necessarily those of Sun Microsystems ___ Evolution-list mailing list Evolution-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/evolution-list
Re: [Evolution] Message scrolls automatically to bottom
On Sun, 2007-01-21 at 02:18 +0530, B S Srinidhi wrote: Hi, On Sat, 2007-01-20 at 14:57 -0500, Poohba wrote: When I open a message, it immediately scrolls to the bottom as if I am holding down the space bar or down arrow. It doesn't scroll. It jumps to the bottom of the message. How do I stop this from happening? Read this: http://www.go-evolution.org/FAQ#Why_does_the_message_scroll_to_the_bottom_in_the_preview_pane.3F So what *is* the reason that caret mode does this? You don't see this sort of behaviour in other applications that have caret modes, and I'm struggling to think of any accessibility benefit that would be peculiar to a mail client. Cheeri, Calum. -- CALUM BENSON, Usability Engineer Sun Microsystems Ireland mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]GNOME Desktop Group http://ie.sun.com +353 1 819 9771 Any opinions are personal and not necessarily those of Sun Microsystems ___ Evolution-list mailing list Evolution-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/evolution-list
Re: [Evolution] multiple email accounts
On Wed, 2007-02-14 at 10:33 -0700, Nicolas Bock wrote: Thanks for the trick. I second this, we would need a location setting. Is there an official wish list somewhere? FWIW, I would see any Location setting as a desktop-wide feature, not something whose UI should be in Evolution. Things like network settings, timezone, default printer etc. would all benefit from knowing about location changes. (MacOS 9 used to have a nice UI for this... it's gone in OSX where location only affects network settings, but there's a little app called LocationX that redresses the balance a bit.) Cheeri, Calum. -- CALUM BENSON, Usability Engineer Sun Microsystems Ireland mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]GNOME Desktop Group http://ie.sun.com +353 1 819 9771 Any opinions are personal and not necessarily those of Sun Microsystems ___ Evolution-list mailing list Evolution-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/evolution-list
Re: [Evolution] Small Icons / Icons Only
On Thu, 2007-01-25 at 15:31 -0500, Matthew Barnes wrote: On Thu, 2007-01-25 at 11:39 -0700, Aaron Segura wrote: I've tried searching the list archives and documentation, but can't find out how to do what I want. Using Evolution 2.6.1, is there a way to change the toolbar icons so they are smaller and don't contain text? Like when you right-click on the Firefox toolbar, click customize, then are able to select Use small Icons and Show: Icons? Yes, but this is a desktop-wide setting. It will affect all your applications. (This is why the HIG suggests this setting be over-ridable in individual applications, but I guess Evo isn't there yet...) Cheeri, Calum. -- CALUM BENSON, Usability Engineer Sun Microsystems Ireland mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]GNOME Desktop Group http://ie.sun.com +353 1 819 9771 Any opinions are personal and not necessarily those of Sun Microsystems ___ Evolution-list mailing list Evolution-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/evolution-list
Re: [Evolution] Search boxes and UI meddling
On Fri, 2007-02-09 at 12:45 -0400, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: BTW, I didn't even realize the little magnifying glass was clickable! Its location makes it functionally invisible and it lacks what the CHI people call affordance. FWIW, I filed a bug a few months ago to have a downward arrow added to the icon, to make it more obvious that it offered some menu items (aka make it look more like Spotlight search on the Mac). I'd agree there's certainly scope for grander improvements, though. Cheeri, Calum. -- CALUM BENSON, Usability Engineer Sun Microsystems Ireland mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]GNOME Desktop Group http://ie.sun.com +353 1 819 9771 Any opinions are personal and not necessarily those of Sun Microsystems ___ Evolution-list mailing list Evolution-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/evolution-list
Re: [Evolution] email navigation using arrow keys, PageUp or PageDown keys
On 20 Dec 2006, at 01:39, Vernie Gloria wrote: Hello! I will find evolution much more intuitive when the following navigation keys be implemented as part of email navigation: When which window is focused (the message list, I guess)? And what do you suggest as alternative shortcuts for the functions that some of your proposed shortcuts already perform? Cheeri, Calum. arrow up - move the body of the email one line up arrow down - move the body of the email one line down PageUp - move the body of the email a page up or several lines up depending on the size of the window. PageDown - move the body of the email a page down or several lines down depending on the size of the window. left arrow - move to previous email right arrow - move to next email These may not be a development priority but it will surely improve usability of evolution email program using keyboard keys. -- Vernie -- CALUM BENSON, Usability Engineer Sun Microsystems Ireland mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]Java Desktop System Team http://blogs.sun.com/calum +353 1 819 9771 Any opinions are personal and not necessarily those of Sun Microsystems ___ Evolution-list mailing list Evolution-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/evolution-list
Re: [Evolution] Keyboard shortcut for Next unread message in another folder
On Thu, 2006-12-14 at 19:17 -0400, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: On Thu, 2006-12-14 at 15:56 -0700, Brett Johnson wrote: When you create a search folder which includes unread messages in a collection of other folders, you've just thrown away a bunch of context for reading the messages (i.e. which folder they come from). Right click on the column headings and select Add A Column. Add the column Location. And then curse as you have to make your window much wider than you want it to be before you can see anything useful in that column :) Cheeri, Calum. -- CALUM BENSON, Usability Engineer Sun Microsystems Ireland mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]GNOME Desktop Group http://ie.sun.com +353 1 819 9771 Any opinions are personal and not necessarily those of Sun Microsystems ___ Evolution-list mailing list Evolution-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/evolution-list
Re: [Evolution] OT: bold fonts in Evolution on Mac
On Fri, 2006-11-03 at 19:07 -0500, Zbigniew Chajecki wrote: Hi, I'm sorry that my question is off-topic but I couldn't find a quick answer on google and I suppose someone might have a similar problem and knows how to fix it. I did an auto update of X11 on my Mac (1.4) today and after that I lost bold fonts in my Evolution. I suppose it has nothing to do with evolution but rather with gtk. What puzzles me is that I haven't changed my .gktrc-2.0 file that includes only the following line gtk-font-name = Bitstream Vera Sans 12 This font worked fine before but now it is gone (well, at least bold style) Unfortunately, that update included corrupt X11 Vera fonts-- it's also biting OpenOffice users: http://www.oooforum.org/forum/viewtopic.phtml?p=185725 Assuming you backed-up before you did the upgrade (always wise), copying /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/TTF/Vera*.ttf over from your backup should fix it. Cheeri, Calum. -- CALUM BENSON, Usability Engineer Sun Microsystems Ireland mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]Java Desktop System Group http://ie.sun.com +353 1 819 9771 Any opinions are personal and not necessarily those of Sun Microsystems ___ Evolution-list mailing list Evolution-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/evolution-list
Re: [Evolution] first time set up / sending mail
On 23 Feb 2006, at 20:15, Brock Inglehart wrote: Switching from web mail to Evolution. Went through set up wizard. Have confirmed with ISP that all POP and SMTP server addresses are correct. I have boxes checked for server requires authentication and remember password and all other info filled in. Wizard said I was done. I can receive mail fine. When I send mail I get a request for a password. I enter the only password I use anywhere and it doesn't take it Are you sure your ISP requires authentication when sending mail? None of the ISPs I've ever been with has required authentication for sending via SMTP, only when receiving. Cheeri, Calum. -- CALUM BENSON, Usability Engineer Sun Microsystems Ireland mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]Java Desktop System Team http://blogs.sun.com/calum +353 1 819 9771 Any opinions are personal and not necessarily those of Sun Microsystems ___ Evolution-list mailing list Evolution-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/evolution-list
Re: [Evolution] Evolution Keyboard Navigation Specification
On Fri, 2005-12-23 at 11:56 +0800, Nancy Cai wrote: hi. I have finished the evolution keyboard navigation specification. You can visit the page at: http://go-evolution.org/Evolution_Keyboard_Navigation_Specification for details. Haven't been through it in detail, but a couple of things jump out immediately: - The HIG recommends against using Ctrl+Shift+[0-9] and Ctrl+Shift+[A-F] for shortcuts that are active at the same time as an entry field (e.g. the composer window), as these shortcuts are used to enter Unicode characters. Currently Evolution uses a few of these (I've just been caught out by Ctrl+Shift+A myself...) - Ctrl+Shift+W just feels counter-intuitive for creating a new window; I'd normally expect Ctrl+W to be associated with closing a window, and by extension, Ctrl+Shift+W to close all windows. Frankly, I'd suggest that a lot of the things in the list aren't really frequently-used enough to need keyboard shortcuts at all, which would make it easier to be more HIG-compliant, but obviously I'm not in possession of the user data that you guys hopefully are. Cheeri, Calum. -- CALUM BENSON, Usability Engineer Sun Microsystems Ireland mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]Java Desktop System Group http://ie.sun.com +353 1 819 9771 Any opinions are personal and not necessarily those of Sun Microsystems ___ Evolution-list mailing list Evolution-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/evolution-list
Re: [Evolution] Visual cue for active search bar
On 12 Dec 2005, at 17:15, Srinivasa Ragavan wrote: Pretty good except for the ghastly colour :-) :-) If the idea sounds good, probably we can add this with a nice color. Just remember to pick it from the theme, so that high contrast users etc. also benefit. Cheeri, Calum. -- CALUM BENSON, Usability Engineer Sun Microsystems Ireland mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]Java Desktop System Team http://blogs.sun.com/calum +353 1 819 9771 Any opinions are personal and not necessarily those of Sun Microsystems ___ Evolution-list mailing list Evolution-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/evolution-list
