GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 266850
need way to see how many unread messages are in mailboxes other than the selected one
Last modified: 2005-05-19 23:45:30 UTC
Please fill in this template when reporting a bug, unless you know what you are doing. Description of Problem: in evo 1.4, I would drag my 3 IMAP mailboxes to the shortcut bar on the left. this would allow me to see at a glance if I had any unread e-mails in any of those IMAP accounts. in evo 2, this is not possible, obviously, and since I can only select one IMAP INBOX at a time, the little informative section at the top of the mail tree doesn't tell me enough. it will tell me if the INBOX that I have _selected_ has any unread e-mail, but not any of the other accounts. Steps to reproduce the problem: 1. see above. 2. 3. Actual Results: see above. Expected Results: see above. How often does this happen? every time. Additional Information:
I'd love to see this implemented also. :)
View->Folder Tree
I'm using evo 2.0.0 and there's no View | Folder Tree menu option. Can you explain, fejj?
ah, guess that was only a 1.4 option. doesn't matter, the folder-tree is always in view in 2.0 then I guess (which shows the unread counts to the right of each folder in the tree)
um. no, perhaps I didn't phrase what I need clearly enough.... let's say I have this scenario (which I do): - INBOX (2) -- subfolder -- subfolder -- subfolder -- subfolder -- subfolder -- subfolder -- subfolder -- subfolder -- subfolder -- subfolder -- subfolder - INBOX (4) -- subfolder -- subfolder -- subfolder -- subfolder -- subfolder -- subfolder -- subfolder -- subfolder -- subfolder -- subfolder -- subfolder - INBOX (8) -- subfolder -- subfolder -- subfolder -- subfolder -- subfolder -- subfolder -- subfolder -- subfolder -- subfolder -- subfolder -- subfolder in 1.4, I used to have icons for those INBOXes on the left hand side in the shortcut bar, and I could easily glance at those 3 icons and they would say "INBOX (3)" which would tell me that I needed to go to that inbox and look for my 3 new unread e-mails. in 2.0.0, there is no shortcut bar. there is also no view of "new/unread e-mails" outside of the tree. the problem is that the tree is limited vertically, and I cannot see even 2 INBOXes since I keep its children expanded (as I filter e-mails coming in into those destinations), let alone all 3 INBOXes. since evo 2.0.0 has tied the visual indicator of new/unread e-mails directly and only to the tree view of the IMAP accounts, if the user cannot see all of his INBOXes without scrolling (as I cannot), then the user cannot tell if he/she has any unread e-mails in those accounts easily. Is there a way around this (I think there's not), or is this something that can be thought of as a feature enhancement? thanks!!
then your complaint is about the shell and not the mailer
I really miss the old functionality of Evolution v1.4 of the traybar button. In v1.4 the count of unread mails in current folder was shown next to icon & program name. This saves time & clicks, since the new mail status is easily visible without the need to come back to the mailer window. Is it possible to have similar functionality in v2.0? I am using Evolution 2.0.2 from Debian unstable under lt_LT.UTF-8 locale
Disregard my comment above please - I have filled it here by mistake
the ui has changed, you could collapse the items, or you could scroll once in a while - it wont kill you
Um. Yeah, that's very nice. You're right. It certainly won't kill me to scroll once in a while. That doesn't change the fact that evolution has a possible usability problem that you're ignoring. And is it normal to close wishlist requests as INVALID? Seems a trifle rude and perfunctory.