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 -- Matthew Nuzum www.bearfruit.org newz2000 on freenode _______________________________________________ Usability mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/usability
