Re: [Evolution] Re: [Evolution-hackers] Feature request summary 1/27

[Duncan Mak <duncan ximian com>]

On 29 Jan 2001 10:43:18 +1030, Not Zed wrote:
> Ouch, that sounds like an awful interface.  I think its actually hard to
> write too, since currently the code doesn't do dynamic columns like
> that.  I would have thought a better one would be to have something show
> up when you click on the message itself, in the viewing window, where
> you can add keywords or whatnot.

I think this sounds great. As someone also suggested for a right click
menu within the message view, a menu item to do this could also be put
in there.

To go back to the thread issues, people have been mailing me left and
right about how Outlook handles threads and how it indicates
read/unread.

 In Outlook: if a collapsed thread has any unread messages in it, the
head of the thread is marked unread.

We don't actually do this right now, and I think this is a fairly
consistent thing to do. 

Another bit I'm noticing is some questions on how to handle heads of
threads that are actually not avaliable. Some people think it's
confusing that the message list shows a listing  that looks just like a
message, but it's actually just an 'anchor' for the thread, they
requested a change of icon for differentiating between the anchor and
real messages.

A patch has been posted a while ago, I don't know what happened to it. 

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Duncan Mak
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