Re: [Evolution] RFE: how about a "expand current thread" command?

[Milan Crha <mcrha redhat com>]

On Wed, 2011-06-15 at 15:06 +0200, Dan Vratil wrote:
> On Wed, 2011-06-15 at 08:21 -0430, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> > In large folders -- such as the one where I keep the traffic for this
> > list -- I usually restrict the message list to Unread. However I often
> > find myself looking at a reply to some thread and want to see the
> > context. The only option at present to go up to the drop-down menu and
> > change the view, which of course affects the entire folder.
> >
> > It would be nice to have an option to expand just the current thread,
> > and of course reverse the process when done. This would act
> > independently of the visibility of the rest of the folder.

        Hi,
that's not so easy. The restriction on the folder prevents the message
list to know about all the thread messages, and there is no easy way to
rebuild the view with "all my previous filtering + thread of currently
selected message". Also note that once you get the message no longer
satisfying filter then you'll lose it from the view when regenerating
it.

> I like this idea. For some time, I've been thinking about storing state
> of each thread (collapsed/expanded), so that you could collapse loooong
> boring threads in (especially in mailing lists) that you are not
> interested in and Evo would remember that.

Evolution does that, and it's fixed already, there was a problem with
folder not being created, thus the state saving failed. See [1] for more
information.
        Bye,
        Milan

[1] https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=578245