Re: [Evolution] Another folder selection wish

[Art Alexion <art rhd org>]

On Thu, 2009-10-29 at 08:38 -0400, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> > What about rather
> https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=252922 ?
>
> That would be better than nothing, though not ideal (you would lose
> the
> position of the last message you were looking at, assuming it's now
> been
> marked as Read).
>
> However instead of "oldest unread" I would prefer "first unread", as
> defined by the folder sort order rather than date. The user orders the
> folder by some preferred criterion and that should be taken into
> account. Even the concept of "oldest" isn't clear (sent date?, arrival
> order?). Noite that "first" also depends on the whether the folder is
> sorted in increasing or decreasing order.
>
> See also https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=587610 for a
> related
> issue.

My concern is not so much which message is selected (though I would
prefer last selected message*) so much as that a message, not the
folder, receive the keyboard focus.

*The reason I prefer "last selected" is that I may be checking something
in another folder in reference to the selected message.  Once I get the
info I need from that other folder, I want to go back to the message I
was reading. Did I articulate that understandably?
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