Evolution 2.0 UI proposal

Eye candy is only half the story. It looks nice but what really

matters is how you interact with it. My top gripes with the

current UI:

1) The composer sucks. Why can't we have a hook to our favourite editor? (Kmail does ...)

2) Some modern MUAs allow you to select some text in the message pane and only that will be quoted in the reply. Saves a lot of time.

3) Select a new folder in the folder pane. Now try to jump to the next unread message without selecting some random message first. You can't because the list pane is not active. Similarly, you can delete something with the trashcan button, but not with DEL or Ctrl-D. Absurd.

4) I prefer to have my list pane ordered with most recent at the bottom. Evo should remember this but doesn't. Unless there's a specific message selected, it always shows the pane from the top.

5) It would also be nice to have the list pane focussed on the first unread message automatically, but without selecting it.

6) The search bar default criterion is "Subject". In my experience, this is almost never what I want. "Sender" would be much more useful to me, or it should be configurable.

7) The docs do not explain exactly the difference, if any, between expunging messages and emptying trash. This is only tangentially a UI issue, because in fact Evo seems to have only one way to delete messages: mark them in the folder. Since people often use more than one client (I tend to use Mozilla at home, on the same IMAP server as at work) it would be useful to have the option of "deletion by moving to a real (not virtual) Trash folder".