Impossible to sort the email accounts

[François Tissandier]

Binary package hint: evolution

Currently, the only way you can sort your email accounts is alphabetically. And the local folder is always on top, and the search folders always at the bottom. So it's a bit frustrating, as the local folder is used less and less I think, most people have some IMAP folders. A simple drag&drop to rearrange the accounts would be a very nice addition.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.10
Package: evolution 2.30.3-1ubuntu5
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.35-22.33-generic 2.6.35.4
Uname: Linux 2.6.35-22-generic i686
Architecture: i386
Date: Tue Sep 28 09:45:13 2010
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/evolution
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.04 LTS "Lucid Lynx" - Release i386 (20100429)
ProcEnviron:
 SHELL=/bin/bash
 LANG=en_US.utf8
SourcePackage: evolution

[Sam Brightman (sambrightman)]

This has been a problem for a long time, and affects usability quite seriously - if you have limited vertical space, you want you accounts ordered so that the most commonly used one is at the top (and if you use IMAP, you probably don't care about the local holders). Lots of unnecessary mousing and scrolling at the moment, and for the last few years.

[Avery Ceo (avery-ceo)]

This is an even bigger issue on netbooks and tablets, where vertical screen space tends to be even MORE severely limited. Since Ubuntu is working hard for growth in these two spaces, this may affect the importance.

[RedSingularity (redsingularity)]

Setting to 'Wishlist' status as requested by Veger.
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[Maarten Bezemer (veger)]

I added a link to this report upstream as well, hopefully it will be solved

[Jörg Frings-Fürst (jff-de)]

Change status to Fix Released (see gnome-bugs)