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

[dan hensley att net]

> 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. 

I too would greatly like to see this.  Otherwise how will you
know a collapsed thread has any unread mail under it?

> 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. 

This too is something that is needed.  An anchor's visual display
should not be the same as an individual message's display, because
the two are not the same.  A different icon (like I've suggested
before, and what that recent patch accomplished) would be a step in
the right direction.

This reminds me of a recent post to the Nautilus list.  It was
from someone who had (I thought) some really good suggestions on
how nautilus could improve its visual cues for actions.

Dan