Re: [Evolution] Accidental sorting

[Pete Biggs <pete biggs org uk>]

I think what the original person meant is that if you have no message
selected and something happens to the folder, the system automatically
selects message number 1 which invariably means that the view
immediately scrolls to the top of the list.  As the original poster
said, this most often happens if you delete a message, then expunge -
the message you did have selected has disappeared and so the system
doesn't know where to go.

I have some sympathy with the devs.  If you delete & expunge a message
in the middle of the folder list, which message should then be
highlighted - if it's an unthreaded view, then just select the next in
the list - but if it's a threaded view, the next message may be in some
distant thread and it would be counter intuitive.  So they obviously
went for message number 1.

P. 


On Mon, 2008-03-10 at 17:47 +0100, Milan Crha wrote:
>       Hello,
> there are some hidden options to enable that, they are on by default,
> but if you use trunk/svn and scheme install failed for you, then the
> option is off.
>
> Try create/check these bool values in gconf editor:
> /apps/evolution/mail/display/thread_latest
>    (Whether sort threads based on latest message in that thread)
>
> /apps/evolution/mail/display/thread_expand
>    (Default value for thread expand state)
>
> There is no UI option for these values at the moment.
>       Hope that helps,
>       Milan
>
> On Mon, 2008-03-10 at 11:53 -0400, Reid Thompson wrote:
> > I was commenting on the fact that threaded sorting with latest emails
> > at
> > the bottom seems to be broken ( one click sorting on headers is fine
> > with me, I prefer it actually ).  The issue I see is that if you sort
> > by
> > date such that latest emails are at the bottom, and you have threaded
> > sorting on, thread location is determined by the datestamp of the
> > first
> > email in the thread rather than the last email in the thread.  This
> > results in threads that are 'up the ladder and out of the viewing
> > window' receiving new responses that I as the user do not see unless I
> > scroll up the viewing window.  I believe that the thread location in
> > the
> > viewing window should be determined by the datestamp of the last email
> > received for the thread.
>
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