GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 310872
Very annoying having to resize ONE by ONE the columns of list view of messages
Last modified: 2005-10-08 03:33:29 UTC
This is a very annoying usability bug that I've felt after using thunderbird and switch to evo. I have aprox. 12 imap folders corresponding each one to mailing lists, I dont like the evolution default order of columns[1] in the list view of messages in a folder, and I was very angry to have to do the resize and ordering of the fields manually in EACH folder... thunderbird handles this pretty well... I think the 'average' user wants a specific ordering view all his mail stuff, not folder specific orderings... just my opinion... [1] I like subjet in 80% of space and sender in 10% of space Other information:
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you're wrong, users DO want per-folder settings, unfortunately.
I think different layouts/orderings for each folder makes the user stuck for a moment when they change from one folder to another. But I am not against users could have specific column layouts per folder, I am against current behaviour where users *are forced* to set a specific column layout for EACH folder (unless they are happy with the evo's default). A way to let both users happy is to apply the last column layout set by the user to newly created folders. So this way users who want per-folder layout still can go one by one, and users who want one layout for all their mail can also specify the layout only once. The only defect of this approach is my case, where I first created all my mailing-list folders to later configure the way I read mail on them. Don't know what average user will do first, although probably a normal user won't have more than 4 folders.
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 274396 ***