Evolution showing emails upside down

Matthew Barnes mbarnes at redhat.com
Fri Feb 23 03:58:34 UTC 2007


On Thu, 2007-02-22 at 21:27 -0500, John Dennis wrote:
> Yeah, I don't think many folks know it's there or what's it for either.
> Don't feel bad you're not the first person to be bitten by this. I only
> discovered it after a month of cursing at evolution's bad behavior when
> Jonathan Blanford in the desktop group pointed it out to me. IMHO it's a
> bad design to have a feature be so easily toggled on which silently
> produces odd behavior. Apparently different apps do bettor jobs of
> alerting the user it is on (e.g. firefox displays a warning dialog, some
> apps display an indicator in their status bar), however evolution is
> silent with respect to caret mode :-(

FWIW, this is on my TO-DO list.  I'd like to try to mimic Epiphany's
behavior of displaying "Caret" in the status bar, but I'm open to other
suggestions too.  This, of course, is in addition to tracking down the
source of the scrolling malfunction in GtkHTML.

Matthew Barnes




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