Few simple questions on Evolution

[Norman Silverstone]

On Wed, 2005-01-12 at 19:56 +1000, CB 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:
> 
> - 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?
> 
> - 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 '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?

I think there is a way to reduce the size of the toolbar icons because
mine are relatively small. I have, unfortunately, forgotten how it
happened but I am trying to find out. If I am successful I will post the
answer.

Norman