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Bug 349440 - Apply filters to new messages is not intuitive to find
Apply filters to new messages is not intuitive to find
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 562397
Product: evolution
Classification: Applications
Component: Mailer
2.8.x (obsolete)
Other All
: Low enhancement
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Assigned To: evolution-mail-maintainers
Evolution QA team
evolution[filters]
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2006-07-31 14:48 UTC by Yves-Gwenael Bourhis
Modified: 2011-05-27 06:10 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
GNOME version: 2.15/2.16


Description Yves-Gwenael Bourhis 2006-07-31 14:48:51 UTC 
read this :
https://qa.mandriva.com/show_bug.cgi?id=17040

Any ordinary user will not easily find out why filters don't work.
And I don't see how an end user will ever-ever guess he needs to check the option 'Apply filters to new messages in INBOX on this server' in the Account Editor (Receiving Options tab).

User bugs in a GUI application implies that the application has a "usability design" bug.

Solution:
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In the filter edition/creation there should be a short cut with "apply filter to" and a list of the accounts to which filters can apply. This would sens and make it intuitive to any user.


Other information:
Comment 1 Karsten Bräckelmann 2006-07-31 16:49:39 UTC 
(In reply to comment #0)
> User bugs in a GUI application implies that the application has a "usability
> design" bug.

One bug. Never saw anything like this in b.g.o. So we spotted one user who didn't find this. Doesn't make it an "usability design" bug to me...

Anyway, valid feature request, and the idea of integrating shortcuts for this to the Filter editor sounds pretty fine. Severity Enhancement.


Also, note that this is an issue only for IMAP, not POP3. The reason for this to be disabled by default is, that applying Filters on IMAP servers is more expensive and typical usecases often involve server side filering anyway.
Comment 2 Matthew Barnes 2008-03-11 00:29:19 UTC 
Bumping version to a stable release.
Comment 3 Akhil Laddha 2011-05-27 06:10:41 UTC 

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 562397 ***