Re: [Evolution] Msg Selection

[chen <pchenthill novell com>]

On Wed, 2010-06-16 at 07:30 +0100, Gavin Simpson wrote:
> On Tue, 2010-06-15 at 22:44 -0400, Matthew Barnes wrote:
> > On Tue, 2010-06-15 at 21:31 -0400, Philippe LeCavalier wrote:
> > > If you click a folder Evo forces the auto-selection of the newest
> > > unread message and worked back from there.
> >
> > It's not that sophisticated.  It remembers the highlighted message ID
> > and automatically selects that when you return to the folder.  If that
> > message doesn't exist or isn't visible, it either selects the first in
> > the list or none at all, depending on the context.
To add to what matt has said, the message would also be unselected if
evolution terminates abruptly, either by a crash or process kill
(evolution --force-shutdown). This is to ensure that we don't keep
crashing on start-up selecting the same
message.

> Is that configurable in any way? I like my newest mail to be at the end
> (bottom) of a list. The "jump to first in list" is mildly annoying in
> such circumstances, especially in folders with a lot of mail. Now I
> know /why/ this is happening I can try to work around it; hadn't
> realised that that was what was causing it.
Its not configurable.

- Chenthill.
> G