On Wed, 2007-02-28 at 08:30 -0500, Rodney Dawes wrote: > Recent versions of evolution sort threads by the most recent reply. The > date for the toplevel message in a thread, is shown with the date of the > latest reply as well, in the event the thread is collapsed. Collapsing threads seems rather cumbersome, but I was delighted to see that it does in fact work. For the OPs interest, here's two ways I work around the problem: 1) Use '[' and ']' to jump to the next unread message in the folder 2) Use the "Hide Read Messages" action Other than that, I think this thread is pretty off-topic for the usability list. mike > I don't know about Received Date, but sorting by "Date" works fine for > me. The feature probably isn't bug free, either, though. > > -- dobey > > > On Tue, 2007-02-27 at 17:47 -0600, Matthew Nuzum wrote: > > I hope I'm not tiring people with my bug reports... please understand > > my goal is to make systems better and to boost productivity. > > > > Many cool e-mail programs have a threading feature that groups related > > messages in chronological order. This makes it easy to see messages in > > context. > > > > Evolution has this feature, but as far as I can tell, it is crippled > > severely because of the inability to sort message threads in a useful > > way. > > > > For example, if someone sends you a message, and you reply, then a > > week later this person replies back, logically, the two messages they > > sent are grouped together. > > > > Unfortunately, if you've received 200 messages since then, you will > > have to scroll down past those 200 messages to see the reply. > > > > This is because when you sort your threaded display by "received date > > (desc)" the received date of the *oldest* message in the thread is > > used, not the newest. > > > > To illustrate this better, I have a folder called "bugs" and filters > > to put all my bug related e-mails there automatically. > > > > There are over 1700 e-mails in this folder. > > > > Some time ago, I got subscribed to a bug about pango. I get a couple > > messages from this thread a month it seems. When I get a new message, > > I have to scroll past 1500 or so e-mails to find the new one. The list > > is so long, that I scroll relatively fast. However, scrolling fast > > makes it incredibly easy to miss the unread message. > > > > That's an exaggerated (but true) example, however this characteristic > > of evolution hampers my e-mail reading every day. > > > > I would love to see sorting of threads use the received date of the > > newest msg in the thread rather than the oldest. This is how every > > other MTA I have used displays messages. > > > > Anyone willing to triage this and add comments? > > http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=412845 > > > > _______________________________________________ > Usability mailing list > Usability gnome org > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/usability > -- Michael R. Head <burner suppressingfire org> http://www.suppressingfire.org/~burner/ http://suppressingfire.livejournal.com
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