[Evolution] Bug#504674: evolution: behaviour of space bar, fonts for message list, sorting options, date display

lee lee at yun.yagibdah.de
Thu Nov 6 01:42:39 UTC 2008


Subject: evolution: behaviour of space bar, fonts for message list, sorting options, date display
Package: evolution
Version: 2.22.3.1-1
Severity: wishlist

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When reading mails with every mail displayed in its own window, the space
bar doesn't bring up the next message. (It can only be used to scroll the
text inside that window.) "Magic spacebar" in preferences is enabled, and
according to [1], the magic spacebar should bring up the next unread
message, but it doesn't.

However, different from the behaviour described on [1], when reading mailing
lists (i. e. when having the message list display set to "Group by
threads"), I would prefer that using the space bar would stay within the
thread I'm currently reading, rather than continuing to other unread mail.
On the last message in a thread, it should close the message display window
so that I can choose the next thread I'm interested in to read through.
Since other users might prefer that the space bar brings up new messages,
the behaviour of the space bar might have to be configurable in detail.


It doesn't seem to be possible to change the (size of) the font used for
the message list (other than using gnome preferences or the like, which would
change other fonts as well). I would like to be able to use a smaller font for
the message list only, configurable per folder. --- BTW, the sorting
options should also be per folder so that, for example, mailing lists can be
set to be grouped by threads while other folders can be sorted by date without
having to switch that every time manually when changing to another folder. And
in the message list, I'm seeing the date displayed as, for example,
"Today, 11:13 AM" and as "7:24 PM", as if "7:24 PM" wasn't "Today" anymore.
Both mails are from "Today", though:


"Date: Wed, 5 Nov 2008 09:13:41 -0800 (11:13 CST)" is displayed as "Today, 11:13 AM"
"Date: Wed, 5 Nov 2008 20:24:44 -0500 (19:24 CST): is displayed as "7:24 PM"


Now I guess "20:24:44 -0500" should be displayed as "Tomorrow" ...


[1]: http://library.gnome.org/users/evolution/stable/usage-mail-getnsend-read.html.en



-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.27.1 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages evolution depends on:
ii  dbus                   1.2.1-4           simple interprocess messaging syst
ii  evolution-common       2.22.3.1-1        architecture independent files for
ii  evolution-data-server  2.22.3-1          evolution database backend server
ii  gconf2                 2.22.0-1          GNOME configuration database syste
ii  gnome-icon-theme       2.22.0-1          GNOME Desktop icon theme
ii  gtkhtml3.14            3.18.3-1          HTML rendering/editing library - b
ii  libart-2.0-2           2.3.20-2          Library of functions for 2D graphi
ii  libatk1.0-0            1.22.0-1          The ATK accessibility toolkit
ii  libbluetooth2          3.36-1            Library to use the BlueZ Linux Blu
ii  libbonobo2-0           2.22.0-1          Bonobo CORBA interfaces library
ii  libbonoboui2-0         2.22.0-1          The Bonobo UI library
ii  libc6                  2.7-15            GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libcairo2              1.6.4-6.1         The Cairo 2D vector graphics libra
ii  libcamel1.2-11         2.22.3-1          The Evolution MIME message handlin
ii  libdbus-1-3            1.2.1-4           simple interprocess messaging syst
ii  libdbus-glib-1-2       0.76-1            simple interprocess messaging syst
ii  libebook1.2-9          2.22.3-1          Client library for evolution addre
ii  libecal1.2-7           2.22.3-1          Client library for evolution calen
ii  libedataserver1.2-9    2.22.3-1          Utility library for evolution data
ii  libedataserverui1.2-8  2.22.3-1          GUI utility library for evolution 
ii  libegroupwise1.2-13    2.22.3-1          Client library for accessing group
ii  libexchange-storage1.2 2.22.3-1          Client library for accessing Excha
ii  libfontconfig1         2.6.0-1           generic font configuration library
ii  libfreetype6           2.3.7-2           FreeType 2 font engine, shared lib
ii  libgconf2-4            2.22.0-1          GNOME configuration database syste
ii  libglade2-0            1:2.6.2-1         library to load .glade files at ru
ii  libglib2.0-0           2.16.6-1          The GLib library of C routines
ii  libgnome-pilot2        2.0.15-2.4        Support libraries for gnome-pilot
ii  libgnome2-0            2.20.1.1-1        The GNOME 2 library - runtime file
ii  libgnomecanvas2-0      2.20.1.1-1        A powerful object-oriented display
ii  libgnomeui-0           2.20.1.1-2        The GNOME 2 libraries (User Interf
ii  libgnomevfs2-0         1:2.22.0-5        GNOME Virtual File System (runtime
ii  libgtk2.0-0            2.12.11-4         The GTK+ graphical user interface 
ii  libgtkhtml3.14-19      3.18.3-1          HTML rendering/editing library - r
ii  libhal1                0.5.11-5          Hardware Abstraction Layer - share
ii  libice6                2:1.0.4-1         X11 Inter-Client Exchange library
ii  libldap-2.4-2          2.4.11-1          OpenLDAP libraries
ii  libnm-glib0            0.6.6-2           network management framework (GLib
ii  libnotify1 [libnotify1 0.4.4-3           sends desktop notifications to a n
ii  libnspr4-0d            4.7.1-4           NetScape Portable Runtime Library
ii  libnss3-1d             3.12.0-5          Network Security Service libraries
ii  liborbit2              1:2.14.13-0.1     libraries for ORBit2 - a CORBA ORB
ii  libpango1.0-0          1.20.5-3          Layout and rendering of internatio
ii  libpisock9             0.12.3-5          library for communicating with a P
ii  libpisync1             0.12.3-5          synchronization library for PalmOS
ii  libpixman-1-0          0.10.0-2          pixel-manipulation library for X a
ii  libpng12-0             1.2.27-2          PNG library - runtime
ii  libpopt0               1.14-4            lib for parsing cmdline parameters
ii  libsm6                 2:1.0.3-2         X11 Session Management library
ii  libsoup2.4-1           2.4.1-2           an HTTP library implementation in 
ii  libusb-0.1-4           2:0.1.12-12       userspace USB programming library
ii  libx11-6               2:1.1.5-2         X11 client-side library
ii  libxcb-render-util0    0.2.1+git1-1      utility libraries for X C Binding 
ii  libxcb-render0         1.1-1.1           X C Binding, render extension
ii  libxcb1                1.1-1.1           X C Binding
ii  libxcursor1            1:1.1.9-1         X cursor management library
ii  libxext6               2:1.0.4-1         X11 miscellaneous extension librar
ii  libxfixes3             1:4.0.3-2         X11 miscellaneous 'fixes' extensio
ii  libxi6                 2:1.1.3-1         X11 Input extension library
ii  libxinerama1           2:1.0.3-2         X11 Xinerama extension library
ii  libxml2                2.6.32.dfsg-4     GNOME XML library
ii  libxrandr2             2:1.2.3-1         X11 RandR extension library
ii  libxrender1            1:0.9.4-2         X Rendering Extension client libra
ii  zlib1g                 1:1.2.3.3.dfsg-12 compression library - runtime

Versions of packages evolution recommends:
ii  evolution-plugins             2.22.3.1-1 standard plugins for Evolution
ii  evolution-webcal              2.21.92-1  webcal: URL handler for GNOME and 
ii  gnome-desktop-data            2.22.3-2   Common files for GNOME 2 desktop a
ii  gnome-pilot-conduits          2.0.15-1.2 conduits for gnome-pilot
ii  spamassassin                  3.2.5-1    Perl-based spam filter using text 
ii  yelp                          2.22.1-8   Help browser for GNOME 2

Versions of packages evolution suggests:
ii  bug-buddy                  2.22.0+dfsg-3 GNOME Desktop Environment bug repo
pn  evolution-dbg              <none>        (no description available)
pn  evolution-exchange         <none>        (no description available)
ii  evolution-plugins-experime 2.22.3.1-1    experimental plugins for Evolution
ii  gnome-spell                1.0.7-1       GNOME/Bonobo component for spell c
ii  gnupg                      1.4.9-3       GNU privacy guard - a free PGP rep
pn  network-manager            <none>        (no description available)

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