Hi
I've recently started using Novell Evolution 2.4, the latest version of
the mail/groupware client that claims improved GNOME Human Interface
Guidelines (HIG) support in its latest version.
Today I came across a large message, and wanted to search within it.
This is how I found the find menu!
1. Action: Press Control-F, knowing that many applications support this
shortcut
Result: Forwards a message
2. Action: Press Control-E, knowing that Microsoft Outlook 2003 using
this shortcut
and that Evolution tries to mimic it
Result: Expunges deleted messages from the current folder
3. Action: Click on the Search menu, believing Searching would be under
the
Search menu
Result: No relevant items in this menu
4. Action: Click on the Edit menu, knowing that some applications have
Find in there
for reasons that are not obvious to me
Result: Found the Find in Message menu item
The HIG says that the Find menu item should be under Edit, where
Evolution currently has it
(http://developer.gnome.org/projects/gup/hig/2.0/menus-standard.html#menu-standard-edit),
but I find this very disjointed to have some Find/Search functionality under
one menu and some under another.
Does the HIG apply here, or would Evolution be better off moving the
Find in Message menu item under Search?
Thanks
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