On Mon, 2008-03-10 at 09:42 -0700, Rick Knight wrote: > Reid Thompson wrote: > > On Mon, 2008-03-10 at 08:41 -0700, Rick Knight wrote: > > > >> Reid Thompson wrote: > >> > >>> On Mon, 2008-03-10 at 08:16 -0430, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > >>> > >>> > >>>> True. I use "latest at the bottom" with threading and this sort of thing > >>>> has always annoyed me. One suspects that the devs don't use this mode or > >>>> it would have been fixed a long time ago. > >>>> > >>>> > >>>> > >>> +1 for fixing it -- I thought there was a bugzilla entry for this.. but > >>> I can't seem to find it. > >>> _______________________________________________ > >>> Evolution-list mailing list > >>> Evolution-list gnome org > >>> http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/evolution-list > >>> > >>> > >> Isn't this normal behavior for other email clients (Thunderbird, > >> Outlook)? I normally sort latest at the bottom, threaded, but I do at > >> times need to sort on sender or subject. A single click on the column > >> heading is very handy for this, so... > >> +1 for leaving it be. > >> > >> Thanks, > >> Rick > >> _______________________________________________ > >> Evolution-list mailing list > >> Evolution-list gnome org > >> http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/evolution-list > >> > > > > I was commenting on the fact that threaded sorting with latest emails at > > the bottom seems to be broken ( one click sorting on headers is fine > > with me, I prefer it actually ). The issue I see is that if you sort by > > date such that latest emails are at the bottom, and you have threaded > > sorting on, thread location is determined by the datestamp of the first > > email in the thread rather than the last email in the thread. This > > results in threads that are 'up the ladder and out of the viewing > > window' receiving new responses that I as the user do not see unless I > > scroll up the viewing window. I believe that the thread location in the > > viewing window should be determined by the datestamp of the last email > > received for the thread. > > > Reid, > > Thanks for the explanation. I can see that this would be a problem. I've > just installed 2.12 from svn and I don't see the problem you describe. > Maybe it's been fixed? > > Thanks, > Rick My build from svn head last week still shows the issue ( see attachement )... Path: . URL: http://svn.gnome.org/svn/evolution/trunk Repository Root: http://svn.gnome.org/svn/evolution Repository UUID: 9792ae6b-c725-0410-a7bc-87ac6a6ec1ac Revision: 35145 Node Kind: directory Schedule: normal Last Changed Author: ymarcheg Last Changed Rev: 35145 Last Changed Date: 2008-03-07 09:18:33 -0500 (Fri, 07 Mar 2008) I'll build again and check...
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