Re[3]: threding/sorting interaction (bug 870)

On Mon, 12 Jul 2004 21:40:16 +0200 (CEST) Martin Jost <[email protected]> wrote:

MJ> > What Martin Jost was asking for is sorting the (top of the) threads
MJ> > according to the oldest or most recent message in the thread, so
MJ> > that an old thread that gets a new message added jumps to the top
MJ> > (or bottom). 
MJ> 
MJ> Yes.
MJ> Probably the same thing should be done for size.

 To be honest I really don't see why should it be done for the size but
it's not very important.

MJ> > The reason for why he wants this feature is that he has many unread
MJ> > messages in his mailbox, so that new messages in old threads get
MJ> > lost.
MJ> 
MJ> Yes, that's just the point.

 But you can always Ctrl-Shift-U (go to next unread), can't you?

MJ> Sorting be size to do cleaning up may be also a point.

 Ah, so this is why. Do you really need this often?

MJ> There was also a suggestion to simply switch threading (temporarily)
MJ> off, when sorting by date or size.

 But you'd still need to re-change the sort order before turning it back
on?

MJ> IHMO this also sounds like a reasonable idea. (In fact I just switch
MJ> threading off, when I sort by date or size and really want the correct
MJ> result. The "difficult" part is to remember switching threading on
MJ> again, after I've finished)
MJ> 
MJ> And yes, I would still like to see such a feature (one way or the other)

 I can implement switching the threading off when sorting is enabled (any
sorting or just by some criteria?) but I don't think I can do anything else
about this.

 Regards,
VZ



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