Re: [Evolution-hackers] Addressbook UI thoughts

[Not Zed <notzed ximian com>]

Why not just hit ']' or '['?

Or switch views, its pretty quick.

The sorting this is tricky if you get new stuff arriving, it means you'd have to move chunks of stuff around the list, or have an inconsistent list (we already do some of that i guess).


On Tue, 2003-12-09 at 22:05, Tuomas Kuosmanen wrote:
> On Tue, 2003-12-09 at 13:10, Nat Friedman wrote:
> > On Mon, 2003-12-08 at 19:30, Peter Williams wrote:
> > 
> > > How would such a thin display interact with message threading? Threading
> > > is important (to me, at least) and I can't visualize a thin display that
> > > would handle it very well.
> > 
> > I think you pretty much have to forego threading in that kind of display
> > mode.
>
> Speaking of threading btw, there is one problem with it, and I use flat
> non-threaded view for now because of that. It is the possibility to
> overlook new messages because they are way up in the message list when
> someone replied to an oooold thread. Very easy to miss the mails. For
> flat view those are added to the bottom where new messages are so one
> can see recently received mails.
>
> There is one thing that might solve this though. Many of the
> nowadays-popular web forum software have threaded view, but the threads
> themselves are sorted by the date *a message was added to a thread*. So
> in that case, the oooold thread would move first in your list when a new
> message is received in that. In other words, sort the whole threads by
> discussion activity inside the thread.
>
> That way you can see stuff in threads (useful in following discussions)
> but you also see what is going on when the active threads show first on
> your new mail display.
>
> Does this make sense to you?
>
> Tuomas
>
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