Re: [Evolution] Accidental sorting

[Patrick O'Callaghan <poc usb ve>]

On Mon, 2008-03-10 at 11:48 +0200, Timo Sirainen wrote:
> Is it really necessary that a single click on the
> From/Subject/Received/etc. column header changes the sorting? I use it
> on purpose maybe once a month, and accidentally hit it several times a
> week, which is getting annoying. How about instead a popup-menu with
> radio buttons:
>
>  o No sorting
>  o Ascending
>  o Descending
>
> I also tried how it would work if I instead sorted messages so that
> newest would be at the bottom instead of at the top. Besides somehow
> seeming weird looking when threading is enabled, the list gets scrolled
> to top every time a new message arrives while no messages are selected
> (e.g. I had expunged a message). So that isn't very usable either..

True. I use "latest at the bottom" with threading and this sort of thing
has always annoyed me. One suspects that the devs don't use this mode or
it would have been fixed a long time ago.

poc