Re: [Evolution] Annoyance with "next message" order

[Pete Biggs <pete biggs org uk>]

> Aha!  Interesting!  I just got it to happen again and noticed something
> important.  I had a thread like this:
>
>   --> Joe      v help with this        Today 00:57
>       Bob          help with this      Today 02:43
>       Joe        v help with this      Today 01:14
>       Bob            help with this    Today 02:52

> In the above situation, I use C-d to delete the current message.  I
> thought the problem was that the cursor then skipped the next message
> but what happens is more subtle than that: the cursor does correctly go
> to the next message in order, but then the MESSAGES ARE REORDERED so
> that now I have a new message above (before) my cursor; after the delete
> my folder looks like this:
>
>       Joe        v help with this      Today 01:14
>   --> Bob            help with this    Today 02:43
>       Bob            help with this    Today 02:52

Would it help if you turned on "show deleted messages" (or off "hide
deleted messages") - then it wouldn't ever need to re-order the list?

> I wonder if the bug here isn't in the original threading display.  If
> we're really going to read things by date, but with threading, wouldn't
> the correct order for the original threading be this:
>
>   --> Joe      v help with this        Today 00:57
>       Joe        v help with this      Today 01:14
>       Bob            help with this    Today 02:52
>       Bob          help with this      Today 02:43
>
> ?  That is, the next message in the thread after Joe's 00:57 message is
> Joe's 01:14 message, so that should be next.  Then all replies to Joe's
> 01:14 message are after it, in a subthread.

But I'm sure someone would say that the ordering is wrong because the
last message is not the newest message as the sort order implies. (I'm
not disagreeing with you BTW).

But I think the bug here might be the re-ordering after you delete a
message.  I would have thought there is a case for saying that the tree
shouldn't be re-ordered whilst you remain in the folder.

I must admit that I find the re-ordering annoying in other circumstances
- when a new email is received, the thread will plummet to the bottom of
the tree or a branch in a thread will move around.  Not annoying enough
to do anything about it, but annoying though!

P.