[Evolution] Mail reading question

[Ow Mun Heng]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Eric Lambart [mailto:ximian at nomeaning.net]
> Sent: Thursday, October 02, 2003 9:04 AM
> To: evolution at lists.ximian.com
> Subject: Re: [Evolution] Mail reading question
> 
> 
> On Wed, 2003-09-24 at 21:56, Des Dougan wrote:
> > I´m in the process of migrating from W2K to Linux (RH9 and 
> KDE 3.1 in my 
> > case), and have been trying out Evolution. Now, I dislike 
> the ¨preview 
> > pane¨ mode of reading email, preferring to read it in a 
> separate window. 
> > However, I can´t find any way of moving to the next message 
> in this mode 
> > (Mozilla, for example, has a ¨Next¨ toolbar button, and the 
> ¨N¨ key also 
> > moves through the unread messages).
> > 
> > Can I do the same in Evolution? If not, this seems a major 
> oversight in 
> > the design.
> 
> No, you cannot do this currently, apparently due to some fundamental
> limitations in the GUI design (?).  They are planning to have this 
> working in Evolution 2.0 (among many other changes).  Meanwhile, it's
> Preview Pane or you're out of luck... if you just want to go from one
> message to the next or previous one in the list.
> 
> But... it seems that selecting next UNREAD/previous UNREAD works from
> the separate-message window.  That function is currently mapped to the
> "." (next) and "," (previous) keys and maybe a couple of other

On Mine Evo 1.4.5 It's mapped as "[" and "]" keys by default. Not
too bad. However, I would _really_ like to have a keyboard shortcut 
for going to Next Message (regardless of read/unread status).

YOu know.. like going through the flow of messages to gain context
after a new message pops up in that thread.

There's a mouse shortcut key for that on the window pane but 
if there's a keyboard alternative, That would be even better.

> alternatives.  Those keys are easily customizable if you want to hack
> the right files.  I like to use N and P, myself.  But if you're just
> getting into linux you might not be up for that just yet =)
> 
> I found it interesting to note (just now) that viewing unread messages
> in the separate window does not mark them as read (though
> double-clicking an unread msg to initially OPEN the window does mark
> them as unread).  While you're reading them in the window, you can use
> Ctrl-K to mark them as read.
> 
> I think we can expect lots of things to work better in Evolution 2.x. 
> But meanwhile, most things work great and welcome to linux.  When I
> switched to linux I couldn't find a decent gui mail program 

When's Evo 2.0 slated for release?