Few simple questions on Evolution

[Erik Bågfors]

On Wed, 12 Jan 2005 19:56:02 +1000, CB <ubuntu-users at crispin.cb-ss.net> wrote:
> Although I generally use thunderbird and mutt for my mail, I've been
> trying to get to like Evolution. Apart from it's IMAP slowness (compared
> to mutt & thunderbird), there are a couple of little niggles that I'd be
> interested to know if there are workarounds for:

What IMAP slowness is that? I find it to be as fast as thunderbirds
IMAP support.  But then I only use thunderbird under windows, not
linux.
 
> - ridiculously big toolbar icons. Is there any way of reducing these? I
> know ctrl-Shift-O hides the toolbar altogether, but can I just make it
> smaller?

Have you tried turning off the text and just having icons? I've never
seen this as a problem myself.
 
> - apparently no sticky settings for hiding read messages in folders. It
> drives me nuts that to have to go 'View->Hide Read Messages' now and
> again to re-apply the 'hide read' view.

The simplest thing to do here is to create a vfolder.

tools->vfolder editor-> add -> "unread mail", "status" "is not"
"read", select folders if you like.

That should work, haven't used it myself as I don't want to hide my
read messages.


> - the 'normal' header display takes up an extreme amount of space
> (compared to, for example, the very neat display when you collapse the
> headers in thunderbird). Is there any way of reducing this?
>

Another thing I've never thought about.  Do you have a very small
display? I've even added a few headers to display in normal mode and
still think it's fine.

Regards,
Erik