Re: [Evolution] Labels and filters

[Not Zed <notzed ximian com>]

Yeah the colour stuff isn't great, it would probably make more sense to just have the labelling for that instead.

IMO the labelling should remain as is though (with the ability to label on a filter), but a new 'keyword' system should be added separately to do the gmail-style vfolder thing.  It would make a quick and scalable extension for e.g. imap vfoldering, since it effectively caches any complex filtering search result in the keyword assignment.  There were ideas to do vfoldering like this ontop of the existing stuff, but the ideas didn't resolve very well at the time.

It would be a good contrib project, it's only a weekend's work, if that.

On Tue, 2004-07-20 at 12:10 +0200, Andre Klapper wrote:
> hi roland, hi everybody,
>
> Am Montag, den 19.07.2004, 15:47 +0200 schrieb Roland Orre:
> > * In filters you can set attribute "color", but this is not
> >   very useful, as you can not search for or select things
> >   according to color. The color attribute can be removed.
>
> well, removed or at least combined/merged with labelling.
>
> > * In filters you should be able to set attribute "label".
>
> this is bug 48863 and/or bug 36352.
>
> > * Every message should be able to have many labels.
>
> if labels are combined with colours, this is not possible - you can only
> show one color per line in the message list window (and i don't want
> rainbow coloured message list lines in evo! ;-)

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