Hi all, A few suggestions on what's been bugging me usability-wise with Evo. If the response here is positive (meaning I don't get many "you're out of your mind!" responses) I'll formally add them (as enhancements) to the bug-tracker.
1. I've defaulted to PLAIN rather than HTML mails, since too many HTML mails are unreadable on my dark theme (white text with white background). This is misbehaviour on the author's part, but I get plenty of these. However, sometimes I do need to view the HTML of a particular mail (proper formatting when ppl send tables and stuff which gets rendered to single-column in PLAIN). The only way I've figured to handle this is to 'prefer PLAIN' and set the settings to 'show HTML' everytime I have a HTML mail. Would suggest that, instead, a simple 'show this message in HTML/plain' method be implemented, most likely in the menus, or perhaps even on the toolbar. 2. I've got server-side sorting (IMAP in gmail) of my mailing lists into a single folder. However, I tend to go back to gmail to read my MLs because of its UI. Specifically, each thread is listed as a conversation, you can go back and forth between conversations and just read the whole conversation, with the already-read conversations minimized. In evo, I have the choice between non-threaded view (which breaks connectivity of threads) and threaded view (an old thread with >20 responses can totally clutter up my list of mails. The closest approximation I've managed to find is by hiding read mails and using threading, but there's still the (admittedly smaller) problem of long unread threads taking up lots of vertical space, and sometimes not being able to see the already-read parts of the thread. Something simple that may help here is a shortcut key/button to quickly show/hide unread messages, instead of always having to go through the menu. Thanks for reading this far. On a side-note, are there any external evo plugin sites, similar to mozilla's addons website? Or are the plugins which come with evo pretty much all there are (don't get me wrong, its a great list)? _______________________________________________ Evolution-list mailing list Evolution-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/evolution-list
