Bug 147781

Summary:	Evolution wastes screen space
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	David Woodhouse <dwmw2>
Component:	evolution	Assignee:	Dave Malcolm <dmalcolm>
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Description David Woodhouse 2005-02-11 08:50:19 UTC

Evolution's Mail/Calendar/Contacts/Tasks buttons take a large amount of space
which should be used for displaying the folder tree. There's no real need for
them  to have the full text in addition to the large icons; especially in the
huge side-by-side arrangement. This is a severe regression in Evolution's
usability on small screens.

Thankfully it's also relatively easy to improve -- you can change the
translations of the button names in /usr/lib/bonobo/servers/GNOME_Evolution* to
just ''.

See resulting more usable folder tree resulting from the smaller buttons in the
bottom left-hand corner of http://david.woodhou.se/evo-ate-my-spam-report.jpeg

Please consider making this the default, or at _least_ an option.

Comment 1 Dave Malcolm 2005-02-11 23:03:11 UTC

Evolution 2.1.* in Rawhide has an option to configure this, currently in the
menus in the View->Window Buttons submenu (which is a bad place for it IMHO).

Resolving as Rawhide

Comment 2 David Woodhouse 2005-03-08 09:10:59 UTC

Cute. But Evo doesn't seem to remember this setting from one session
to the next. It's quite random about remembering that the keybindings
are set to emacs mode, too.

Comment 3 Dave Malcolm 2005-03-08 17:59:07 UTC

Please file the problem with remembering the button appearance setting
in upstream bugzilla (bugzilla.ximian.com), if it's not there already,
and add me to the CC for the upstream bug.

WRT to the emacs keybindings - where are you setting this up?

Comment 4 David Woodhouse 2005-03-08 18:08:39 UTC

Ximian bugzilla refuses to talk to me -- it forces me to log in
repeatedly and has forgotten me by the time I come to enter anything
new in the bug. 

I've no idea how I set the keybindings up -- once upon a time there
was an option in Evo itself. Then later it was a system-wide setting
through the control panel. Now I have no clue; it seems to have moved
again. Mostly it just works, but sometimes when I run Evo it doesn't.
Closing evo and restarting usually makes it behave again.