Crash detection dialog box is poorly worded

thanks for your report, what's your proposal phrase or dialog then?

Well if the dialog is really necessary, I would suggest something like the following:

"Evolution appears to have exited unexpectedly the last time it was run. It is possible that the contents of one of your preview panes caused this. Would you like to hide the preview panes this time? You can restore the preview panes from the View menu."

Then the buttons could be labelled "Hide previews" and "Don't hide previews".

I think this is much clearer, but it does seem like a bit of an unnecessary question. Ideally what would happen is that Evo would open as usual, but the preview pane would show a message saying something along the lines of "This message is not being displayed because Evolution exited unexpectedly the last time it was shown." With a "Click here to preview this message" button. This would be much less obtrusive, and in many cases the email being previewed is not the cause of the problem.

confirming, the dialog is not really optimal, the issue is being discussed upstream on http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=508732

the bug has been fixed upstream now

This bug was fixed in the package evolution - 2.23.90-0ubuntu1

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evolution (2.23.90-0ubuntu1) intrepid; urgency=low

  * New upstream version:
    Bug Fixes:
    - #249844: Fix compiler warnings
    - #324203: New check box to be able to set LDAP address books browseable
               until reaches given limits
    - #347287: Use a single model for all the views
    - #352695: Search and clear action, looses the expanded state of threads
               (lp: #254072)
    - #416258: Make evolution respect GTK_ICON_SIZE changes
    - #435969: Show authentication section in an account druid too
    - #467115: Fix missing icons in different modules
    - #498095: Set proper mnemonic widget for description label
    - #508732 Removed 'Crash detection' startup dialog box. (lp: #235427)
    - #513363: Removed the outdated "New Features" list and the incorrect
               "Evolution team" email address.
    - #519292: Better thread expand and collapse handling
    - #529743: Support Subject or Recipients contain search
    - #530402: Improve dialog wording, and don't use a window title
    - #531288: Use proxy icon from tango-icon-theme and fall back to the icon
               shipped by gnome-control-center
    - #535745: Require and link calendar libs with libgdata and libgdata-google
    - #544117: Initialize variables to NULL, to not free uninitialized memory in
               the cleanup part on the error
    - #546263: Editing contact list messes minicard view fixed
    - #546668: Drop one unused define
    - #546744: Use address-book-new icon instead of contacts-new
    - #546748: Change "_Properties..." to "_Properties" to match HIG
               and other components.
    - #546785: Make bbdb plugin just as polite as google-account-setup
    - #546788: Drop unused "ViewNormal" cmd entry
    - #546788: Remove unused formatting style option
    - #546892: Prefer themed icon names
    - #547308: Do not try to authenticate to the server more than twice
               with correct credentials
    - #547369: Fix a typo.
    - #547372: Fix TeX-style quotes
    - #547411: New, Tangoized versions of images now live in data/icons
    - #547805: Do not filter list of applications to open attachments
    Other fixes:
    Lots of disk summary related stability fixes
  * debian/control:
    - updated evolution-data-server requirements
  * debian/evolution.install:
    - correct naming issue

 -- Sebastien Bacher <email address hidden> Mon, 18 Aug 2008 16:09:35 +0200