GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 236285
"From" display editable to include/exclude info
Last modified: 2004-04-14 13:44:07 UTC
Description of Wishlist: "From" display. I'd like to be able to select (include or exclude) three "From" display views: Name only (Name and email address displayed in the email in below the email listing), both Name and Email address, or Email address only (if there is no name available which would be a default). This allows me to see more of the Subject line and allows for more data about the email to be displayed. Steps to reproduce the problem: 1. 2. 3. Actual Results: Expected Results: How often does this happen? Additional Information:
this has been requested before, and a user submitted a patch but it wasn't done correctly (it assumed each of from/to/cc only had 1 address or something equally naive). it's also not an easy thing to do because it involves a lot of parsing/malloc'ing on the fly if the user wants something other than what we display now during the rendering phase since we only cache the pre-parsed/display-formatted header values (ie, all in UTF-8 and rfc2047 decoded). This means SLOW. the only other option is to store each of name-only, name-and-addr, and addr-only strings for each of From/To/Cc in the summary, but this bloats the summary something fierce. so... it comes down to: 1) I want bloat. ram and disk space is cheap (who cares if the summary size on disk and in ram nearly triples in size? - please note that the summaries are a good portion of the total memory usage in evolution-mail) 2) I want slowness, processor power and ram are cheap (we'd have to at least temporarily cache the parsed strings) 3) I'd rather go without the feature I personally choose #3 :-)
Based on Jeff's input, can we just eliminate the email address from the "From" column? I can see the email address when I click on it, or is there another reason why it's displayed? How about another "field" to go along with the "add column" part of Evo?
OK, I think I can be clearer on what I'm describing above. In the three pane window of Evo, there is normally a vertical pane on the left with a top and bottom pane on the right. The top pane shows a list of the emails with columns of Date, Subject, and From. Since I can read the email address of the individual/mail list in the bottom pane, is it possible to have the top pane with the email list to just contain the name of the individual in the From column? And/or is it possible to select the display in this pane to name only, name and email address, or just email address of no name is provided? Is this betters?
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 225392 ***