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Bug 669445 - A way of turning Message Preview off by default
A way of turning Message Preview off by default
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Product: evolution
Classification: Applications
Component: Mailer
3.2.x (obsolete)
Other Linux
: Normal enhancement
: ---
Assigned To: evolution-mail-maintainers
Evolution QA team
: 663843 (view as bug list)
Depends on:
Blocks: 669246
 
 
Reported: 2012-02-06 06:28 UTC by Nick Jenkins
Modified: 2012-05-03 23:23 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
GNOME version: ---

Attachments
evo patch (2.48 KB, patch)
2012-05-03 11:43 UTC, Milan Crha 		committed Details | Review

Description Nick Jenkins 2012-02-06 06:28:03 UTC 
In Evo 3.2.3, the message preview pane comes enabled in all mail folders, and the user can turn it off on a folder-by-folder basis, by going View -> Preview -> Show Message Preview.

People generally seem to like the preview pane on everywhere, or off everywhere. If you like it on everywhere, then the current setting is fine. But if you like it off everywhere (as I do), and you have a lot of mail folders (e.g. I have around 700), then turning it off leaves something to be desired.

What is being requested is a way of turning preview off by default. There are several possible ways of doing this. For example:
* Incorporating it into the View applied by View -> Current View. Then the user can customise one folder to their liking, save it as "Messages", or maybe go Edit -> Preferences -> Mail Preferences -> [ ] Apply the same view setting to all folders. This _might_ involve no UI changes, but rather the conceptual adding of the preview pane state to the folder view.
* or a new checkbox under View -> Preview, to set a global default.
* or a new checkbox under Edit -> Preferences -> Mail Preferences, to set a global default.
Comment 1 Akhil Laddha 2012-02-06 12:09:57 UTC 
*** Bug 663843 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 2 Matthew Barnes 2012-02-06 14:26:28 UTC 
Additional information in bug #669246 comment #1.
Comment 3 Milan Crha 2012-05-03 11:43:45 UTC 
Created attachment 213368 [details] [review]
evo patch

for evolution;

With this, if you have checked "Apply the same view setting to all folders", the option influences also "Group by thread" and "Preview panel" visibility in all folders, not only column settings.
Comment 4 Milan Crha 2012-05-03 11:47:21 UTC 
Created commit 6c1a808 in evo master (3.5.2+)
Created commit 2580512 in evo gnome-3-4 (3.4.2+)
Comment 5 Nick Jenkins 2012-05-03 23:23:00 UTC 
Woohoo! Thank you, that's fantastic :-)