On Fri, 2003-09-05 at 16:38, Ettore Perazzoli wrote: > Actually if I think about it, I believe my common pattern is actually to > scroll all the way down and see the most recent messages in the folder > first, no matter what. I wonder if this is a common enough pattern that > it would make sense to just scroll all the way to the most recent > message whenever we open a folder? > > (I think that's actually what Thunderbird does. Apple Mail even sorts > mail in reverse time order by default, so the most recent messages are > always on top and don't require any scrolling.)
I think the reverse time-order sorting is what Outlook does as well, by default. I don't like it (it makes reading a thread in chronological order very difficult), but it's at least common. > Alternatively, we could scroll to the oldest unread message as Mike > said, but I am not sure that actually makes it better -- in my specific > case at least I would still want to scroll to the bottom most of the > time anyways. IMAP/POP has the concept of "new" mail, in addition to "unread" -- I wonder if this concept is widespread enough that the messagelist could scroll down to the oldest "new" message? That behavior would seem to satisfy most mail-reading styles I've heard of. ISTR that the old netscape4 mailer did this. Cheers! -- Brett Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - i n v e n t - _______________________________________________ evolution-hackers maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/evolution-hackers
