GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 309701
date ordering within thread should always be descending
Last modified: 2012-03-08 10:03:04 UTC
Please describe the problem: My standard mail view is: Group By: Subject (Descending) Sort: Date (Descending) Most threads appear like this: Original message 0 Reply 1 +10min Reply 2 +15min Reply 3 +35min (Assuming one parent and three direct children) Some mailing lists appear like this: [Bug 12475] New: can't submit bug report 7:28 PM [Bug 12475] New: can't submit bug report 9:21 PM [Bug 12475] New: can't submit bug report 8:23 PM [Bug 12475] New: can't submit bug report 8:19 PM Note how the descendents are sorted in /reverse/ chronological order. Irrespective of the date ordering of the threads, messages within a thread should be ordered firstly by hierarchy, secondly in oldest to newest received/sent time. Since the parent message will always preceed its decendents chronologically, this ordering is the most logical and is the usual ordering implemented in other mail clients. Steps to reproduce: Actual results: Expected results: Does this happen every time? Other information:
confirming the bug. happening in 2.2.3
related to bug 243463
what display ording are you using?
I think lines three and four of my original description provide this information. If not, tell me what else I need to add here.
This is included in Evolution 2.12.
Created attachment 99646 [details] mails not in descending as per time As one can see in the attachment the selected mail having time stamp 1:28 PM and the child mails having 12:52 PM, 12:54 PM, 1:06 PM and 1:09 PM
I'm not sure what is the bigger problem, if having most recent mail as first in descending order, or that the sub tree is not in descending order. The second thing can be fixed much easier, I guess.
I guess the original or the first mail of the thread should always be the parent and rest all replies to this original mail should be the descendants in the thread in ascending order of the time stamps.
It's the problem, if you've descending ordering, then you've got latest mail first. So it cames first. And making descending first, second as ascending is a bit strange, I guess. You know, what you want is ascending, but main level as descending. Which is strange. I think ascending can work for, especially with a latest thread feature, where are threads sorted based on the latest message in them. Are you OK with this?
*** Bug 652821 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
> Group By: Subject (Descending) I have no idea how to set this. Steps are welcome in order to reproduce.
Group by for mailer is disabled since, well, I do not know exact version, maybe since 3.0.x or even earlier.
I see. NEEDINFO then and asking the reporter for updated steps...
See my duplicate bug 652821, which is more recent. Maybe we should reverse the duplicate link. ;-)
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 652821 ***