Re: [Evolution] Messages sorting in message list

[Francesco Porro <frapox yahoo it>]

Hi Milan,

Il giorno ven, 26/10/2018 alle 11.35 +0200, Milan Crha via evolution-
list ha scritto:
> On Thu, 2018-10-25 at 14:00 +0200, Francesco via evolution-list wrote:
> > Ok, got it.
>
>       Hi,
> I've some news. The good news is that Evolution can do it, all the code
> is there. The bad news is there's a bug in the code. While the default
> is to sort "children" ascending, this value is not properly propagated
> to the internal structures, thus even the option is on, it has no
> effect.
>
> There's a workaround, just run evolution and when the Mail view will be
> there, run this on a terminal:
>
>    $ gsettings set org.gnome.evolution.mail thread-children-ascending true
> After that you'll see, immediately, that the message list changes
> ordering. It doesn't matter whether it had been 'true' before or not.
> This works until the next start of Evolution.

I've just tried the workaround on Evolution 3.30.2 (on an updated Arch
box) and it doesn't seem to work: the ordering of children threads
remains the same. 


> What I'm going to commit will relax some other code, which can
> influence how the thread is constructed, thus the workaround above
> might not produce exactly the same result as the patched Evolution.
>
> I'll include a little bit of information in the related bug report
> (mentioned earlier in this thread).
>       Bye,
>       Milan

I'll wait until the next upgrade of Evo and then test again if this bug
is fixed or not.

ty

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fp