Few simple questions on Evolution

[CB]

On Wed, 2005-01-12 at 11:45 +0100, Erik Bågfors wrote:

> 
> 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.

I've read and heard other people say that Evolution is as quick as
thunderbird, so there must be some variables affecting me differently.
But, yes, I do find Evolution pretty slow for IMAP compared to
thunderbird: it takes 3 or 4 times longer to get an initial view of the
folders on my IMAP server, and viewing folders with a large (2000+)
number of emails takes about twice as long.

>  
> > - 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.

I haven't found out how to do this yet.


>  
> > - 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.

Thanks for the suggestion. I'll check that out. It's a strangely
elementary thing to be missing in an otherwise quite slick email app
though.

> 
> 
> > - 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.

Small, yes, (1152x864), but not really very small by non-geek/IT
standards (a surprising number of people are using 800x640 still). With
a large toolbar and 4 panes (including the silly buttons for 'mail' etc
at the bottom left corner, it really doesn't leave much room for the
mail body. Thunderbird is cleaner.

On the plus side, I like vfolders better than thunderbirds 'search
folders' implementation.