GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 313047
Evolution Mail Account Settings need some UI love
Last modified: 2013-09-10 14:00:09 UTC
The current setup of Mail Account Settings is confusing and limiting. For starters, enabling an account only seems to relate to whether or not that account tries to collect mail from somewhere. In the case of mail accounts with 'none' as a protocol this doesn't really have any use. Un-enabled accounts still appear in the list of email addresses you can send from in Composer but probably shouldn't. Currently, the only way to remove items from this list is to remove them from the Mail Account Settings. There is no way to reorder the accounts. For example, less used accounts that were created earlier the more used accounts appear at the top of the Composer from listing. The [Default] should be more prominent instead of being tagged onto the end of the Account Name. In fact, perhaps the default account setting could be a seperate column using a radio type selector, removing the need for the default button on the side.
*** Bug 313690 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
The account-setup and accounts-list ui must be improved.
well, punting to gnome 2.14 milestone since 2.12 is out and this would break the UI.
Bumping up the priority so we do not miss this again.
I'm not that familiar with the relevant UI and code, but this looks more like a its-very-important-for-Evolution-to-fix bug than a we-should-hold-up-releasing-Gnome-if-its-not-fixed bug. Thus, the target milestone is more appropriate; I'll remove the Gnome target setting. If you disagree, then kick me and put the Gnome target setting back so that we can make sure to include this bug in the public shaming we'll be starting shortly on d-d-l. :)
Bumping version to a stable release.
(In reply to comment #0) > The current setup of Mail Account Settings is confusing and limiting. > > For starters, enabling an account only seems to relate to whether or not that > account tries to collect mail from somewhere. In the case of mail accounts with > 'none' as a protocol this doesn't really have any use. I cannot find a way to create a "none" protocol account in Evolution 3.2.3. > Un-enabled accounts still appear in the list of email addresses you can send > from in Composer but probably shouldn't. This is not the case anymore in 3.2.3. > There is no way to reorder the accounts. For example, less used accounts that > were created earlier the more used accounts appear at the top of the Composer > from listing. This has been fixed for Evolution 3.4, see bug 351025. > The [Default] should be more prominent instead of being tagged onto the end of > the Account Name. There is a green icon now in 3.2. Closing this report as OBSOLETE.