Re: [Evolution] threading message view sorting

[Not Zed <notzed ximian com>]

On Fri, 2002-06-28 at 17:01, Martin Hajduch wrote:
> hi guys,
>
> i have a question:
> i like threaded message view but i'm missing one thing
> i would like to see threads sorted according to the date of the LAST
> message in the thread .. so the active threads will be always on the top
> of the list
> i think that in this manner, it would be much easier to keep track of
> live threads - currently it is sorted according to the date of the FIRST
> message so an active thread which started long time ago will be pretty
> hidden
> is there a possibility how to configure it somewhere ? is it hard to
> change ?

Its not very hard to change, in the code, but you can't do it as a user.

sorting (e.g. by date) is handled by the 'e-table' widget, which is
braindead in this kind of situation, all it does is sort by date, it
doesn't try to do anything smart about it.

> i'm sorry if this was already discussed, i searched through some history
> but gave up after a while ...

I think its been mentioned before, but not for a while.

> thank you for your answer,
> regards,
> martin
>
>
>
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