GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 240905
Can't edit Follow Up flag
Last modified: 2018-07-23 21:45:54 UTC
When you've flagged a message for followup, it doesn't appear to be possible to open the same dialog again (instead of "follow up..." you get "Clear Flag" or "Flag Completed". If you can't ever open that dialog again, then it doesn't make sense to have the "Clear Flag" and "Completed" buttons in the Flag for Follow Up dialog at all, since all it's for is setting, not clearing or completing, dialogs. * Right-click a message and select "Follow Up" * Note "Complete" and "Clear Flag" buttons in flag creation dialog * Assign date and flag type to the flag * Click OK. * Right-click on the message again-- you can clear or complete the flag here, but you can't edit the flag. We should either make the flag dialog re-summonable, or remove the complete/clear buttons from the dialog.
this behaviour was copied from microsoft verbatim. in order to actually get that dialog again to change values, you need to use the Actions->Follow Up menu item leaving open, perhaps we should deviate from microsofts ui. I dunno, not something for 1.4 tho.
still as described by aaron in evo2.5.3. this is NOT enhancement, it's just very, very confusing. (hmm... won't quote linus here ;-)
Bumping version to a stable release.
The below commit lets users edit the Follow up flag (by using the "Mark for Follow Up... menu option") and when it's called on a single message then it really edits it. The 'Clear' button of the dialog had been moved to the dialog's action area, thus when clicked it closes the dialog and clears follow-up flags information from all selected messages. Created commit b0d3546a9d in evo master (3.29.90+)