Bug 698339 - Tag coloration doesn't work if more than one tag is applied
Summary: Tag coloration doesn't work if more than one tag is applied
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Status: CLOSED WONTFIX
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: evolution
Version: 15
Hardware: Unspecified
OS: Unspecified
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Assignee: Matthew Barnes
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2011-04-20 17:05 UTC by Stephen Gallagher
Modified: 2011-04-20 18:35 UTC (History)
3 users (show)

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Last Closed: 2011-04-20 17:21:19 UTC
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Description Stephen Gallagher 2011-04-20 17:05:47 UTC
Description of problem:
When applying a tag to an email, it shows up in the list of messages with a color. However, if two tags are applied, the color is removed. This makes it difficult to locate tagged emails at a glance.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
evolution-3.0.0-1.fc15.x86_64

How reproducible:
Every time

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Tag an email with one tag: it is colored in the message list
2. Tag an email with a second tag: the coloration goes away
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Actual results:
The message is no longer colored

Expected results:
It should be colored with at least one of the tags.

Additional info:

It would also be nice if the message could be colored with BOTH tags (i.e. divide the characters by the number of tags applied, and make sections with each color)

Comment 1 Milan Crha 2011-04-20 17:21:19 UTC
Thanks for a bug report. It was hard to decide which color to use, or how to indicate more tags ina fashin way, so the idea of picking a color when more than one tag is set was dropped. Right click above the message list headers (where is From, Subject, and so on) and add Labels column to the view, so you'll see all set labels on the message. It was decided in upstream to be a solution for your use case.

Comment 2 Stephen Gallagher 2011-04-20 18:35:30 UTC
With all due respect, this is a cop-out. Mozilla's Thunderbird at least will pick one color out of the set and use that.

The entire POINT of having colored labels is so that it's easy to identify them at a glance. Requiring an extra line of black-on-white text to find labels is pointless.

Why bother having colored labels at all?


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