GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 200561
Default folder shortcuts
Last modified: 2013-09-10 14:02:43 UTC
I don't know if this is a Mail or Shell problem. If you have only an IMAP store, the default shortcuts really ought to point to that, not to /local.
I wonder if perhaps the default shortcuts should be set up *after* you do some initial evolution setup.
I think this may have further aspects to it: > I'd like to make my local inbox really the one on my IMAP account. All > my mail is done through there, so the evolution:/local/Inbox lies > barren. > > That makes things a bit ugly if I add a mail summary to my executive > summary. It has a nice bolded "Inbox", which will never include > anything. And the same will happen when we go to support spool mailboxes as incoming folders. Perhaps the shell needs an "inbox:" url or something that evolution-mail maps to whatever its been configured to use as inbox.
Yeah maybe. But I am not sure how to fix this yet, so I'll just assign it to me with a low priority for now.
Perhaps when you create a new account, and set it to be your default account, and it's a storage-type account, it should offer to re-do the shortcuts?
So when I fixed bug NNNN, I made the mailer automatically add a shortcut to the IMAP server's INBOX. Is this good enough to make this bug report be considered closed?
I think this cannot really be fixed in any other way. It's a consequence of the way the shortcut bar and accounts work.
I think with the startup wizard, we can implement the 2001-01-08 suggestion, and that would be better than what we have now. But we don't need to do that for 1.0. So reopening, but marking Future.
*** bug 209775 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Nominating this for 1.2, particularly for XCS
Here's how this should work: - No shortcuts at startup - Evo-mail already has code to create an Inbox shortcut if you do IMAP or Maildir. - Exchange Connector will be fixed to create all four shortcuts if you create an Exchange account - So, after the first-run wizard is done, the shell should fill in whichever of the four basic shortcuts are missing (mail, contacts, calendar, tasks) with shortcuts to their local versions.
Marking this up to critical; it's one of the 'we shouldn't ship without' type bugs, IMHO. Obviously open to discussion/negotiation.
Agreed on Critical.
Here's a suggestion guys: why not make all folder views like VFolders? By default the shortcut to any mailbox would display all mail in one folder - but this isn't a necessity. That's the natural way to think about it as an engineer, but from a user's perspective there is no need for it. This would make it possible to have the default shortcuts a virtual view into ALL folders of a particular class for all accounts. ie. one view into all INBOXes across all accounts. Now THAT would be great! You could have a POP account, an IMAP account, etc. and all would be displayed as though it were in one folder. This would really improve the useability of the program and make the mail summary that much more useful. Anyway that's my 2 cents worth - thanks for the great mail program =)
The shortcut bar on CVS now understands default: URIs, and creates default: URIs (instead of absolute evolution: URIs) by default. Also I added a "Create Default Shortcuts" menu item for the shortcut bar. I guess this should suffice?