If I'm on a website (in Firefox) and copy the image to my clipboard. I would like to then be-able to paste that image into an email.

Ideally I would like to copy and paste anything into an email and it display or attach it.

Some online services have a large number of available applications which require setting preferences in many different Gnome applications to make this service mesh with local desktop apps. The setup should be simpler on first use.

For example, Google has GMail, Calendar, GTalk, etc. Yahoo! has Mail, calendar, chat, and Flickr. It would be convenient to report login credentials in one place and have the desktop's standard applications set up to use the services.

It would be a serious step forward in online desktop development.

When trying to organise a calender you have to collect the information about all your events and add this to your calender. This is time consuming and you can miss critical events.

This is such a minor but handy thing, I'm surprised I cant find it in Evolution. If it's there already, then my idea is to make it easier to find :-)

Anyway the suggestion is to be able to copy or move an email to a new calendar entry. Maybe it's just me, but in my previous life (before Ubuntu-Evolution) I used to regularly copy emails for follow-up to calendar entries. And of course sometimes, they are actually meeting requests, but ones that have come from a user or system that doesn't know how to make a meeting request. Most of my meetings are with people external to my company, so this happens regularly.

UI would be right-click and select 'convert to calendar entry' (just like we already have 'convert to task') and/or just drag a message to the calendar switcher icon.

If it was really smart, it would also scan the message for suggested meeting details like Gmail seems to do.

As we all know, several dates and appointments appear repeatedly (e.g. per month, week, year).
This is was already taken into account by evolutions' calendar.

Tasks can occur repeatedly as well, indeed.

Unfortunately a similar function in evolutions' task planner is missing!

In Kontact (KDE-PIM) an Outlook this is implemented for ages.

It would be nice to find that functionality in future releases of evolution.

Evolution offers to display either the "From" or the "To" column in the email lists, but in many cases where folders contain messages that are classified per topic, "Sent" and "Received" messages are mixed.

For "Sent" messages, it is the "To" column that really matters as you already know that "you" sent the message, while for "Received" messages it is the "From" that is relevant.

Also, it is not obvious to distinguish incoming and outgoing messages. Some indication would be welcome.

I write a lot of mails and instant messages in three languages. Almost every time I have to select the right language for the spell checker. This shouldn't be necessary.

I use Thunderbird for mail, and Psi and Pidgin for instant messaging.

(Actually it have annoyed me for years on my mobile phone)

People are using IMAP more for their email to provide sync between the desktop and mobile smart devices, blackberrys, Iphone, etc. Both Outlook and Evolution are pretty dim in their IMAP handling for a number of reasons. It also is a bit of a pain to manage multiple IMAP accounts.

I propose two changes. First, cache IMAP messages similar to POP. Keep them local as opposed to banging the server every time there is a request. The result is quicker reading and the type of mail experience that users are used to under POP, while keeping the IMAP functionality that users desire.

Second, Evolution would benfit from an option to aggregate multiple IMAP inboxes into the local inbox, which is unused under IMAP. Current functionality would be kept with each IMAP account separately addressable. An additional field could be provide to show the source account. For people with multiple IMAP addresses, this would be significant enhancement. Thunderbird handles messages in this fashion and could be used as a model for this type of functionality.

MS outlook has suffered from this same problem for years, but they have never paid attention to it. If Evolution could one up them on this, then it would have a serious advantage for the new mobile generation.

Evolution needs to be running to get new email notifications. Yet we already have evolution calendar/tasks integration in the clock applet on the panel. Why not allow new email notifications as well without having to have evolution running.

In Evolution & Kmail, it is possible to sort e-mails by date, sender name, recipient name, size or whatever.

But it would be sometimes more intelligent to use other ways to sort the e-mails: