Re: [Geary] conversation list sorting criteria

[Michael Gratton <mike vee net>]

Hey Federico,

On Tue, Oct 11, 2016 at 11:49 PM, Federico Bruni <fede inventati org> 
wrote:
> As far as I understand, the conversation list is sorted by 
> _receiving_ date/time.
> This means that if I reply to an old conversation, this conversation 
> will stay in the bottom of the list until someone replies to my 
> message.
>
> I'm used to a different behaviour, as in Gmail, where sent messages 
> are taken into account when sorting conversations.
> I like this approach, because I want recent conversations to stay on 
> top and IMO sent messages count as much as received messages.
>
> What's your feeling about it?

I think this would make a lot of sense, so much so that I wonder if 
it's actually a technical limitation or a bug. Did you find one related 
to this?

Thinking through the UX a bit: The conversation in the list will likely 
be selected and visible since it's being replied to. When the sent 
message is appended to the conversation in list, the selected 
conversation will potentially disappear when it gets re-sorted up the 
top. Do we then scroll up to it and hence lose the user's place in the 
list, do we just allow it to vanish like that (I guess this already 
happens if another message is received for an existing conversation 
anyway), or is there another option?

//Mike

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