Re: [Evolution] Small "quirklets" in Evolution 1.0.8

2002-10-31 Thread Janus Christensen
On ons, 2002-10-30 at 19:47, Jeffrey Stedfast wrote: > Personally I don't think we should even have that window. It's nothing > but a pain in my rear end. > > argh, I hate that stupid window. Hey! Speak nicely about that "stupid window". I like that window! .-) -- Janus Christensen __

Re: [Evolution] Small "quirklets" in Evolution 1.0.8

2002-10-31 Thread Janus Christensen
On ons, 2002-10-30 at 17:48, Rodrigo Moya wrote: > anyway, I just tested the 'windows way', and it worked. That is, I > selected text with the mouse, pressed CTRL-C, and then CTRL-V on another > application, and the selection was pasted. Is it this what you say > doesn't work for you? That is abs

Re: [Evolution] Small "quirklets" in Evolution 1.0.8

2002-10-30 Thread Rodrigo Moya
On Wed, 2002-10-30 at 21:35, Dan O'Reilly wrote: > On Wed, 2002-10-30 at 13:22, Tony Earnshaw wrote: > > ons, 2002-10-30 kl. 20:58 skrev Dan Winship: > > > > > He was responding to a direct question. > > > > Then "his" answer should have been (given the boasted prowess): "How can > > I help?" >

Re: [Evolution] Small "quirklets" in Evolution 1.0.8

2002-10-30 Thread Dan O'Reilly
On Wed, 2002-10-30 at 13:22, Tony Earnshaw wrote: > ons, 2002-10-30 kl. 20:58 skrev Dan Winship: > > > He was responding to a direct question. > > Then "his" answer should have been (given the boasted prowess): "How can > I help?" OK, my turn now. I was asked "you've never done this, have you?"

Re: [Evolution] Small "quirklets" in Evolution 1.0.8

2002-10-30 Thread Tony Earnshaw
ons, 2002-10-30 kl. 20:58 skrev Dan Winship: > He was responding to a direct question. Then "his" answer should have been (given the boasted prowess): "How can I help?" > Please flame elsewhere. I don't usually flame anywhere, but once in a blue moon ... Best, Tony -- Tony Earnshaw Could

Re: [Evolution] Small "quirklets" in Evolution 1.0.8

2002-10-30 Thread Jeffrey Stedfast
On Wed, 2002-10-30 at 15:18, Mark Neill wrote: > On 30 Oct 2002, Dan Winship wrote: > > This was true in the bad old days, but in these enlightened times, all > > sane widget toolkit implementors (including the gtk and Qt hackers, plus > > mozilla, XEmacs, etc) know that the One True Cut and Paste

Re: [Evolution] Small "quirklets" in Evolution 1.0.8

2002-10-30 Thread Mark Neill
On 30 Oct 2002, Dan Winship wrote: > This was true in the bad old days, but in these enlightened times, all > sane widget toolkit implementors (including the gtk and Qt hackers, plus > mozilla, XEmacs, etc) know that the One True Cut and Paste Behavior is > the one discussed at http://www.freedeskt

Re: [Evolution] Small "quirklets" in Evolution 1.0.8

2002-10-30 Thread Dan Winship
> > > No, when I said impossible, I meant impossible. You obviously have never > > > worked with Unix, X, and Bonobo before, have you? ;-) > > > Yes, I have. For many years, as a matter of fact, having been in this > > business for over 25 years as an engineer. I've worked with several > > flavo

Re: [Evolution] Small "quirklets" in Evolution 1.0.8

2002-10-30 Thread Ettore Perazzoli
On Wed, 2002-10-30 at 11:41, Xavier Bestel wrote: > Le mer 30/10/2002 à 16:54, Not Zed a écrit : > > On Thu, 2002-10-31 at 02:17, Dan O'Reilly wrote: > > > Running this on RH 8.0, just switching over from Windows 2000 and > > > Eudora. I've noticed several little quirks, some of which are quite >

Re: [Evolution] Small "quirklets" in Evolution 1.0.8

2002-10-30 Thread Dan Winship
> Number two is the problem. Gnome, KDE, and umpteen other WM's all have > slightly different ways of implementing their cut-and-paste. This was true in the bad old days, but in these enlightened times, all sane widget toolkit implementors (including the gtk and Qt hackers, plus mozilla, XEmacs,

Re: [Evolution] Small "quirklets" in Evolution 1.0.8

2002-10-30 Thread Tony Earnshaw
ons, 2002-10-30 kl. 20:15 skrev Dan O'Reilly: > > > You use the term "impossible", and I must disagree with that. It's very > > > possible, it just has to be done. > > No, when I said impossible, I meant impossible. You obviously have never > > worked with Unix, X, and Bonobo before, have you? ;

Re: [Evolution] Small "quirklets" in Evolution 1.0.8

2002-10-30 Thread Mark Neill
On Wed, 30 Oct 2002, Dan O'Reilly wrote: > > impossible == programmatically impossible > > Why? Because cut-and-paste depends on two things. 1) A window-manager implementation of cutting and pasting objects from one canvas to another, and the API to access that implementation

Re: [Evolution] Small "quirklets" in Evolution 1.0.8

2002-10-30 Thread Larry Ewing
On Wed, 2002-10-30 at 12:54, Dan O'Reilly wrote: > On Wed, 2002-10-30 at 11:44, Jeffrey Stedfast wrote: > > On Wed, 2002-10-30 at 11:16, Dan O'Reilly wrote: > > > On Wed, 2002-10-30 at 09:08, Rodrigo Moya wrote: > > > > On Wed, 2002-10-30 at 16:47, Dan O'Reilly wrote: > > > > > > > > > > 2. When r

Re: [Evolution] Small "quirklets" in Evolution 1.0.8

2002-10-30 Thread Dan Winship
> > impossible == programmatically impossible > > Why? Just ignore him. The plan is to have cut+paste work right at some point, but I don't know when. -- Dan ___ evolution maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/evolut

Re: [Evolution] Small "quirklets" in Evolution 1.0.8

2002-10-30 Thread Jeffrey Stedfast
On Wed, 2002-10-30 at 13:54, Dan O'Reilly wrote: > On Wed, 2002-10-30 at 11:44, Jeffrey Stedfast wrote: > > On Wed, 2002-10-30 at 11:16, Dan O'Reilly wrote: > > > On Wed, 2002-10-30 at 09:08, Rodrigo Moya wrote: > > > > On Wed, 2002-10-30 at 16:47, Dan O'Reilly wrote: > > > > > > > > > > 2. When r

Re: [Evolution] Small "quirklets" in Evolution 1.0.8

2002-10-30 Thread Dan O'Reilly
On Wed, 2002-10-30 at 11:44, Jeffrey Stedfast wrote: > On Wed, 2002-10-30 at 11:16, Dan O'Reilly wrote: > > On Wed, 2002-10-30 at 09:08, Rodrigo Moya wrote: > > > On Wed, 2002-10-30 at 16:47, Dan O'Reilly wrote: > > > > > > > > 2. When reading messages, I find that I can't select and cut/copy text

Re: [Evolution] Small "quirklets" in Evolution 1.0.8

2002-10-30 Thread Jeffrey Stedfast
On Wed, 2002-10-30 at 11:18, Dan O'Reilly wrote: > On Wed, 2002-10-30 at 08:54, Not Zed wrote: > > On Thu, 2002-10-31 at 02:17, Dan O'Reilly wrote: > > > Running this on RH 8.0, just switching over from Windows 2000 and > > > Eudora. I've noticed several little quirks, some of which are quite > >

Re: [Evolution] Small "quirklets" in Evolution 1.0.8

2002-10-30 Thread Jeffrey Stedfast
On Wed, 2002-10-30 at 11:16, Dan O'Reilly wrote: > On Wed, 2002-10-30 at 09:08, Rodrigo Moya wrote: > > On Wed, 2002-10-30 at 16:47, Dan O'Reilly wrote: > > > > > > 2. When reading messages, I find that I can't select and cut/copy text. > > > REALLY limiting, when you're trying to cut-and-paste f

Re: [Evolution] Small "quirklets" in Evolution 1.0.8

2002-10-30 Thread Dan O'Reilly
On Wed, 2002-10-30 at 09:48, Rodrigo Moya wrote: > On Wed, 2002-10-30 at 17:25, Dan O'Reilly wrote: > > On Wed, 2002-10-30 at 09:21, Rodrigo Moya wrote: > > > On Wed, 2002-10-30 at 17:16, Dan O'Reilly wrote: > > > > On Wed, 2002-10-30 at 09:08, Rodrigo Moya wrote: > > > > > On Wed, 2002-10-30 at 16

Re: [Evolution] Small "quirklets" in Evolution 1.0.8

2002-10-30 Thread Benjamin Kahn
> That doesn't work with, for example, Mozilla. I was trying to create > a bugzilla report as you suggested above, and I couldn't cut/past text > into Mozilla. Yeah. Mozilla is a little flaky about cut and paste. You can either use Mozilla's paste command from the menu, or you can middl

Re: [Evolution] Small "quirklets" in Evolution 1.0.8

2002-10-30 Thread Dan O'Reilly
On Wed, 2002-10-30 at 09:29, Benjamin Kahn wrote: > On Wed, 2002-10-30 at 10:47, Dan O'Reilly wrote: > > Running this on RH 8.0, just switching over from Windows 2000 and > > Eudora. I've noticed several little quirks, some of which are quite > > annoying to me, that I hope somebody can comment on

Re: [Evolution] Small "quirklets" in Evolution 1.0.8

2002-10-30 Thread Rodrigo Moya
On Wed, 2002-10-30 at 17:25, Dan O'Reilly wrote: > On Wed, 2002-10-30 at 09:21, Rodrigo Moya wrote: > > On Wed, 2002-10-30 at 17:16, Dan O'Reilly wrote: > > > On Wed, 2002-10-30 at 09:08, Rodrigo Moya wrote: > > > > On Wed, 2002-10-30 at 16:47, Dan O'Reilly wrote: > > > > > > > > > > 2. When readi

Re: [Evolution] Small "quirklets" in Evolution 1.0.8

2002-10-30 Thread Larry Ewing
On Wed, 2002-10-30 at 10:25, Dan O'Reilly wrote: > On Wed, 2002-10-30 at 09:21, Rodrigo Moya wrote: > > On Wed, 2002-10-30 at 17:16, Dan O'Reilly wrote: > > > On Wed, 2002-10-30 at 09:08, Rodrigo Moya wrote: > > > > On Wed, 2002-10-30 at 16:47, Dan O'Reilly wrote: > > > > > > > > > > 2. When readi

Re: [Evolution] Small "quirklets" in Evolution 1.0.8

2002-10-30 Thread Xavier Bestel
Le mer 30/10/2002 à 16:54, Not Zed a écrit : > On Thu, 2002-10-31 at 02:17, Dan O'Reilly wrote: > > Running this on RH 8.0, just switching over from Windows 2000 and > > Eudora. I've noticed several little quirks, some of which are quite > > annoying to me, that I hope somebody can comment on/corr

Re: [Evolution] Small "quirklets" in Evolution 1.0.8

2002-10-30 Thread Benjamin Kahn
On Wed, 2002-10-30 at 10:47, Dan O'Reilly wrote: > Running this on RH 8.0, just switching over from Windows 2000 and > Eudora. I've noticed several little quirks, some of which are quite > annoying to me, that I hope somebody can comment on/correct: > > 1. If I click on the same message 10 times,

Re: [Evolution] Small "quirklets" in Evolution 1.0.8

2002-10-30 Thread Dan O'Reilly
On Wed, 2002-10-30 at 09:21, Rodrigo Moya wrote: > On Wed, 2002-10-30 at 17:16, Dan O'Reilly wrote: > > On Wed, 2002-10-30 at 09:08, Rodrigo Moya wrote: > > > On Wed, 2002-10-30 at 16:47, Dan O'Reilly wrote: > > > > > > > > 2. When reading messages, I find that I can't select and cut/copy text. >

Re: [Evolution] Small "quirklets" in Evolution 1.0.8

2002-10-30 Thread Rodrigo Moya
On Wed, 2002-10-30 at 17:16, Dan O'Reilly wrote: > On Wed, 2002-10-30 at 09:08, Rodrigo Moya wrote: > > On Wed, 2002-10-30 at 16:47, Dan O'Reilly wrote: > > > > > > 2. When reading messages, I find that I can't select and cut/copy text. > > > REALLY limiting, when you're trying to cut-and-paste f

Re: [Evolution] Small "quirklets" in Evolution 1.0.8

2002-10-30 Thread Dan O'Reilly
On Wed, 2002-10-30 at 09:08, Rodrigo Moya wrote: > On Wed, 2002-10-30 at 16:47, Dan O'Reilly wrote: > > > > 2. When reading messages, I find that I can't select and cut/copy text. > > REALLY limiting, when you're trying to cut-and-paste from an email > > message into something else. > > > are yo

Re: [Evolution] Small "quirklets" in Evolution 1.0.8

2002-10-30 Thread Rodrigo Moya
On Wed, 2002-10-30 at 16:47, Dan O'Reilly wrote: > > 2. When reading messages, I find that I can't select and cut/copy text. > REALLY limiting, when you're trying to cut-and-paste from an email > message into something else. > are you sure you can't? Maybe that's because you're using the windows

Re: [Evolution] Small "quirklets" in Evolution 1.0.8

2002-10-30 Thread Dan O'Reilly
On Wed, 2002-10-30 at 08:54, Not Zed wrote: > On Thu, 2002-10-31 at 02:17, Dan O'Reilly wrote: > > Running this on RH 8.0, just switching over from Windows 2000 and > > Eudora. I've noticed several little quirks, some of which are quite > > annoying to me, that I hope somebody can comment on/corre

Re: [Evolution] Small "quirklets" in Evolution 1.0.8

2002-10-30 Thread Not Zed
On Thu, 2002-10-31 at 02:17, Dan O'Reilly wrote: > Running this on RH 8.0, just switching over from Windows 2000 and > Eudora. I've noticed several little quirks, some of which are quite > annoying to me, that I hope somebody can comment on/correct: > > 1. If I click on the same message 10 times,

[Evolution] Small "quirklets" in Evolution 1.0.8

2002-10-30 Thread Dan O'Reilly
Running this on RH 8.0, just switching over from Windows 2000 and Eudora. I've noticed several little quirks, some of which are quite annoying to me, that I hope somebody can comment on/correct: 1. If I click on the same message 10 times, I get 10 windows with that message on it. On a crowded sc