Re: [Evolution] Highlighting new mail

[Patrick O'Callaghan <poc usb ve>]

On Mon, 2010-07-05 at 12:25 +0100, John Horne wrote:
> On Sun, 2010-07-04 at 19:24 -0430, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> > On Mon, 2010-07-05 at 00:17 +0100, John Horne wrote:
> > > Hello,
> > >
> > > Using Evolution 2.30.2 under Fedora 13. If I have a folder of new mail
> > > messages, it seems that Evolution highlights the newest message in the
> > > folder whereas it used to highlight the oldest. I have the folders
> > > sorted by date/time with the oldest at the top, and they are threaded
> > > too. As such if the folder has many messages, then rather than showing
> > > the first new message (the oldest), it highlights the new message at the
> > > bottom (the newest).
> > >
> > > Is there any way to change this behaviour back to highlighting the
> > > oldest message?
> >
> > You might want to take a look at the (long) thread on this from a few
> > weeks ago:
> > http://mail.gnome.org/archives/evolution-list/2010-June/msg00069.html
> Ah, thanks for that. However, I'm a little confused. The bugzilla says
> this is fixed, and following the git tree it seems that 2.30.2 contains
> the fix. I am running 2.30.2. Whilst I agree with your summary of how
> you would expect the sorting to work, I am not seeing that happening. In
> a folder of solely new messages, the newest one is highlighted, not the
> oldest one.

I don't know if the fix is actually in 2.30.2 (the last entry in the BZ
page seems to imply it is), but I'm also seeing the newest message
selected. Perhaps Matthew can comment.

poc