GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 590452
mail search: bad defaults
Last modified: 2013-09-04 23:51:15 UTC
When I can't find something in my folder; I hit "advanced search" - this immediately defaults to "if any criteria are met". That is pretty lame - and doesn't match what I expect - I expect to have "if all criteria are met" as the default there (and usually everywhere else). Usually my search returns too many matches, and I want to sub-set it ;-) Having said that - the experience of using Evolution search is quite lame - in comparison with people's expectation from google. If I type "jpr status" in "Subject or Recipients contains" - I expect to match a mail sent my jpr@novell.com, with 'status' in the subject. But it does not do this. Instead it looks for "jpr status" - in either subject or recipients - which is uber-lame ;-) if I wanted that I would use quotes (as above) ;-) Please help me find me mail ! ;-) Other information:
Matt, it's a worth fix as a part of kill-bonobo effort.
We can change some defaults here, as suggested. My long-term goal with search is to display results similar to Nautilus, with a blue bar at the top of the list showing your search criteria and letting you refine it directly in the main window. It would also make it obvious that you're seeing search results as opposed to a normal view of mail, contacts, tasks, whatever -- something Evolution currently fails badly at.
Would it be also a good idea to clear searches on restart of Evo? Although, if we do something like Nautilus, it would be visible... Original Ubuntu bug: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/evolution/+bug/586499
Also see bug 536884
"if all criteria are met" is the default for "Advanced Search" for me in 3.8.5