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Bug 300160 - Difficult to navigate to the first unread message in a newly selected folder
Difficult to navigate to the first unread message in a newly selected folder
Status: RESOLVED NOTABUG
Product: evolution
Classification: Applications
Component: Mailer
2.2.x (obsolete)
Other All
: Normal minor
: ---
Assigned To: evolution-mail-maintainers
Evolution QA team
: 302033 (view as bug list)
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2005-04-11 09:12 UTC by Mikael Nilsson
Modified: 2006-03-25 21:01 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
GNOME version: ---


Description Mikael Nilsson 2005-04-11 09:12:57 UTC 
When selecting a folder containing new messages, the bahaviour of evolution has
slowly degraded from 1.4:

1.4: Pressing . goes to the first unread message.
2.0: Must first click the preview pane or press tab a number of times, otherwise
"." is interpreted as a search in the folder list.
2.2: Clicking in the preview pane no longer has any effect as far as "." is
concerned. I must *select* a message in the list first, then press "."

It's becoming more and more convoluted for each evo release. This is a call for
simplification of message navigation.

Other information:
Comment 1 André Klapper 2005-04-12 18:28:31 UTC 
running evolution-2.2.1.0.200504090310-0.snap.ximian.10.1 here and cannot 
confirm your bug submision, if my focus is in the folder list pane, pushing "." 
makes evolution go to the next unread message, so everything works as in your 1.
4-version.
pushing "." also works when the focus is in the four buttons component pane on 
the left bottom.
could you please submit more information, like distribution, gtk etc? (don't 
know if that makes sense though :-/ )
i have gnome2.6 on suse9.2 and gtk2-devel-2.4.9-10, gtkhtml2-3.6.2.0.
200504090310-0.snap.ximian.10.1 and gtk2-2.4.9-10 installed.
thanks in advance.
Comment 2 Mikael Nilsson 2005-04-13 07:03:02 UTC 
These are my precise actions:

1. Start evolution. New mail in inbox.
2. Select inbox (1 mouse click on Inbox), folder list has focus.
3. See that inbox has new mail.
4. Press "." (1 keystroke)
5. Instead of going to the new message, a small popup displays below the folder
pane (quick search for folders, I think), containing the "." and any subsequent
characters I type.

Debian unstable, GNOME 2.8.3, evolution 2.2.1.1. With:
libgtk2.0-0          2.6.4-1 
libgtkhtml3.6-18     3.6.1-2 

/Mikael
Comment 3 André Klapper 2005-04-13 14:58:33 UTC 
whou, i don't see this here, no popup display... :-(
Comment 4 André Klapper 2005-05-03 16:19:20 UTC 
complaining about search mode and pushing "." is also bug 302033
Comment 5 Calum Benson 2005-07-28 10:38:15 UTC 
Apologies for any spam... cc'ing usability-maint on all Evolution usability
bugs. Filter on EVO-USABILITY-SPAM to ignore.
Comment 6 Not Zed 2005-07-29 01:58:29 UTC 
the keypress is ctrl-], not .
Comment 7 Karsten Bräckelmann 2006-03-25 21:01:22 UTC 
*** Bug 302033 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***