Re: possible new sort option
andré via balsa-list <[email protected]>
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Hi Peter, Le 2018-08-19 à 19:02, Peter Bloomfield a écrit : > A new branch 'threading' has been added to Balsa's GitLab site[0]. It > currently has the first part of a proposed change to Balsa's message > threading. > > The three radio buttons on the 'View' menu have been replaced with a > simple 'Thread messages' check-box, and checking it enables a modified > JWZ threading algorithm which constructs threads only by message-id, > ignoring the subject header. > > At present there is no user interface to request full JWZ threading, > although the code for it still exists. It doesn't belong on the 'View' > menu. It should be a per-mailbox option, not global, so it doesn't > belong in the 'Preferences' dialog. That leaves the mailbox 'Properties' > dialog, so the next step is to add a check-box there. Threading is also > a per-mailbox option, but not currently shown on the 'Properties' > dialog, so perhaps we should add two check-boxes: > > [ ] Thread messages > [ ] … by subject as well as by references > > with the second grayed out if the first is not checked. Opinions? Sounds great ... except maybe a little better if the second check box said "by subject if no reference" ? Or am I misunderstanding something ? > > Oh, by the way: this message *looks like* a reply to my earlier post, > but is actually a fresh post, with no 'References' header. JWZ threading > will place it in the earlier thread, because of the subject, but the > Balsa built from the 'threading' branch will make it the head of a new > thread. Happy testing! > > [0] https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/balsa > >> >> Peter > -- André _______________________________________________ balsa-list mailing list [email protected] https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/balsa-list