Re: [Evolution] Go directly to new mail

[Patrick O'Callaghan <poc usb ve>]

On Wed, 2006-02-22 at 13:53 +0100, Andre Klapper wrote:
> hi ian,
>
> Am Mittwoch, den 22.02.2006, 04:34 -0800 schrieb Ian Truelsen:
> > I was wondering if it was possible to have the first new mail message
> > open automatically when I enter a new folder?
>
> no, there isn't. however, there is a "view | hide read messages"
> per-folder option, and the "." shortcut to get to the next unread
> message. both i guess is not a workaround either. :-/

Two things: View->Hide Read Messages only hides messages read up to the
moment you execute it. Messages read subsequently are not hidden until
you execute it again. In other words it's not like the similarly-named
Hide Deleted Messages. This may or may not be the desired behaviour.

Secondly, the "." shortcut only works if some message in the folder is
already selected. If not, you get a text entry box in the folder list
pane with a "." in it. IMHO this is completely useless. Hands up
everyone who has folders with names starting with a "." -- on an IMAP
server this is actually illegal. (In fact, how many people actually use
the "select a new folder by typing a prefix of its name" feature?).

I've reported this as a bug in the past:

http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=268644

This is from October 2004 and as far as I can see has had no progress.
Please don't tell me to use Ctrl-]. It's hard to hit even on a US
keyboard, and *really* hard to hit on many continental keyboards.

poc