Re: Gnome-Bounties - Conversations - Was [Re: [Evolution-hackers] Re: [Evolution] proper threading headers]

[guenther <guenther rudersport de>]

> > > Just wondering, has the evo team already had some people who's shown
> > > interest in implementing Google's Summer of Code bounty for grouping
> > > threads as conversations?
> >
> > Hmm, isn't this like a vFolder on a particular message or sender,
> > including all local and remote folders as source (yes, including Sent),
> > setting Include Threads to "all related" and enabling threading?
>
> it's like a vfolder on a thread, displaying all messages of the thread
> one after another in *one* window, so i do not have to go to the next
> message anymore, only have to scroll down. just time saving and a very
> nice idea.
> (/me knew it would make sense to get a gmail account for testing
> purposes.)

Right, thanks Andre. :)  So it is different.

Anyway, it's a matter of taste and the length of the actual
"discussion". Having thousands and thousands of lines in one small
window with a tiny handle at the scrollbar doesn't necessarily make the
content clearly laid out. Like a random slashdot item... ;-)

...guenther  (who loves the two-paned view as it is but is curious
             to see this nicely implemented in Evolution -- Go Erdi! ;)


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