Hello Mark, We are working on a shortcut editor for Evolution 2.12. It should solve most of your issues.
Recently I posted the same WIP patch in the evolution list. I hope to complete it fast. Appreciate your patience and Thanks for using Evolution. Thanks Srini. On Sat, 2007-03-24 at 08:32 -0400, Mark Stosberg wrote: > Hello, > > I've been having some performance problems with Thunderbird, so I > thought I would give Evolution 2.8.1 a shot (on Ubuntu Edgy). > > I'm most concerned about the reduced keyboard usability of Evolution, so > I'll cover that first, and then provide miscellaneous feedback beyond > that. > > Although I had to install several extensions to accomplish it, I was > able to make Thunderbird 1.5 rather keyboard-friendly. I'd like to know > if there are Evolution shortcuts I'm missing to match the efficiency > I've found with Thunderbird. > > (An article about my Thunderbird setup is here: > http://www.summersault.com/community/weblog/2006/07/20/five-power-tips-for-thunderbird.html > ) > > With TB, I can quickly label messages as Important, Work or Personal > with 1, 2 and 3. It seems to the do the same in Evo, I would have to > type: > > Shift-F10-L-M, (Important) Shift-F10-L-W, (Work) Shift-F10-L-P > (Personal) > > Ouch. I'm starting to investigate if the "Important" notation and the "Flag" > feature are better alternatives in Evo. > > With the GmailUI extension, I can use just "y" to quickly file a > message to a default archive folder, like Gmail. Evo seems to have no > such concept or extension. The closest I can come is "Control-Shift-V" > for "Move". And then *only if the folder name has been exposed*, I can > start typing "archive" to find the match. > > This limitation of only searching visible folder names this way was > especially frustrating when searching for the "evolution" news group. > The search feature does not good unless you have already selected "comp" > and then "gnome", at which point you've already found "evolution"! > > ( I did discover that Shift - Right arrow will open up one of the triangle > folder widgets. ) > > Likewise, with the Nostalgy extension, I can type "g" and then any > unique part of a folder name to go there. In Evo, I first need to use F6 > to go the folder pane, which I need to keep exposed for only this > reason. Then again, only if the folder is already visible (not > collapsed), am I able to use type folder name to search for it. > > Also, the missing ability to use an external editor is a huge blow to > keyboard-centric users. This is especially sad since someone did the > work to integrate vim with Evo three years ago: > http://www.opensky.ca/~jdhildeb/software/gnome-vim/ > The best alternative in Evo seems to be copy/pasting back and forth, and > using "Insert File" in some cases. > > One more keyboard detail: When viewing a newsgroup list, TB does the > sensible thing with "Control-N" in this context and opens a compose > window addressed to the list. In Evol, there's "Post New Message to > Folder", but there's no keyboard shortcut for that, and the concept > seems wrong. I don't want to post to the folder, I want to post to the > group! > > I see I'm not the only person who had trouble figuring out this task: > http://mail.gnome.org/archives/evolution-list/2007-February/msg00104.html > > > With all the keyboard grumbling out of the way, I have some other > feedback to share, including some positive things. :) > > - Well, so far I have definitely had better performance. The IMAP > performance seems to beat the pants of Claws-Mail, at least for the > initial load. I suspect this is because Evo is only loading folders "on > demand", while Claws-Mail tried to load all subscribed folders at once, > bogging down on some folders with thousands of messages in them. > > On the other hand, sometimes NNTP performance was worse, because Evo > doesn't seem to have a limit to the number of messages downloaded like > TB offers, so it bogged down on some bigger lists. > > - Of course it's nice that Evo integrates very nicely with the Gnome > desktop. I'm enjoying trying out the groupware integration features including > "convert mail to task" and sending and accepting events by E-mail. I have > an idea to work on a little gateway script that converts natural language > event descriptions > (like Google Calendar's quick adds), and converts them into a proper ICS > attachments. > In this way, you could quickly send a new event to Evolution from your cell > phone! > > - Evo has a real, full-featured address book. I like the sync-with-Gaim > feature. > However, I was hoping the photos from Gaim would show up when I received a > message > from someone who had a Gaim photo. > > - The plain test formatting toolbar through me off at first (I assumed > it was for HTML), but I like the concept. However, I quickly ran into > missing features that real text editors have, like "rewrap this > paragraph". > > - I appreciated that my labels and colors from TB were preserved. > > - I like that encryption support came built-in. > > Aside from the important keyboard efficiency issues, I'm generally > impressed with the features and ease-of-use that Evolution offers. > > Mark > > > _______________________________________________ > Evolution-list mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/evolution-list _______________________________________________ Evolution-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/evolution-list
