On Fri, 2010-12-10 at 08:42 +0100, Onyeibo Oku wrote: > Greetings > I'm not sure if this should fall into the hacking section or general > section ... so pardon me if this is the wrong audience. I have bumped > into some areas in Evolution that, I think, might either be buggy or > could use some improvement. It is possible that I'm doing something > wrong. I'd appreciate some corrections, and links in that case. Here > they are: > 1. Once an account is set up it becomes difficult to implement an > "alias sending". Evolution doesn't allow its user change the sender's > field when composing ... except for accounts created locally. For > people involved in open-source projects like Evolution this makes it > hard to use evolution to send list related mails. Why? Some users > have email aliases tied to their email accounts ... and use the > aliases for such projects. Is there no way one could override the > sender's field so users can enter their email aliases instead?
Create send-only accounts - then you can choose this "alias" when you send (send is a drop-down). <aside>if you are someone who creates a separate e-mail address for every list - stop doing that, it is dumb, annoying, and pointless; I have no sympathy for people with crazy practices.</aside> > 2. It would be nice if evolution can start silently ... docked in the > panel and runs on the background. This will ensure that the user gets > notified when mails arrive. This also frees the task bar. This > functionality can be archived in conjunction with another application > called Alltray, but alltray has side effects. It introduces shaky > graphic performance (Compiz transitions are affected) Doesn't run-minimized do this? > 3. This is more of a feature request: Wouldn't it be nice if Evolution > can handle what I call "Layered Tasks" ... or "Stratified Tasks" ... > or maybe, "Combo Tasks". I've been thinking about this ever since I > started using Evolution. I see Combo Tasks (or whatever) as a Task > that has other tasks inside it -- like a project with small > objectives. I hope I'm not sounding crazy No, that isn't crazy, it would be awesome. But I don't expect it to happen. In Evolution tasks are VTODOs (basically) and the VTODO is the lamest of the [IMO, deeply flawed] iCalendar standard(s) - it doesn't support anything like task dependency or inheritance. [Although you could support this with X- attributes it would be a fair amount of code around a non-standard scheme so I'd be surprised if the Evo hackers took it up]. Note that task delegation is not even possible in Evolution [major drawback!]. There are GNOME applications for project management[ Planner <http://live.gnome.org/Planner/>], and last I knew the Evo plugin for planner [to make planner tasks available in Evo] was working. But evo remains ignorant of the 'enhanced' task functionality. Another downside of that scheme is that there is no server-side integration [for Planner] which means none of this can be easily shared. _______________________________________________ evolution-list mailing list evolution-list@gnome.org To change your list options or unsubscribe, visit ... http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/evolution-list
