Re: feature announcement

[Gordon Oliver <gordo pincoya com>]

On 2001.08.23 10:10 M . Thielker wrote:
> On 2001.08.23 21:32 Gordon Oliver wrote:
> > just make it harder to dig them out (note that this could be partially
> > fixed
> > by UI - using scrollbars that show the position of marked messages ;-)
> 
> and would be a non-standard, confusing UI element that nobody would
> really
> want to use - imagine what percentage if 200 pixels one message of 5000
> would make...

There was a program at SGI that used this... It was a diff program (gdiff),
and it was _really_ nice. It is not so much to show percentages,
but rather to show the existance of something interesting. It is
visually very obvious... But it would be a pain to write, and should
really be a generic component, which would be more of a pain.

The problem even now with threaded mailboxes with hundreds of messages is
that if a new message gets stuck in an old thread you don't immediately
see it... (minor pet peeve).
	-gordo