GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 328308
Implement reverse threading
Last modified: 2021-05-19 11:37:22 UTC
Evolution is apparently unable to do reverse threading for messages. Preliminary questioning of friends, acquaintances, and #evolution suggest that, not only is this an unpopular feature, but most people have never even heard of it. That said, I find it crucial for retaining my email-reading sanity and as such, kindly request that it be implemented in Evolution. I've attached a screenshot of this rarity, caught in the wild, hoping that one day its beauty may be reconstructed. Thanks!
Created attachment 57950 [details] reverse threading in mutt
Ah, well... guess I can confirm this. ;)
to me this looks like a duplicate of bug 203206, please reopen if you disagree *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 203206 ***
nope, this is not a dupe
the only difference towards bug 203206 is that a thread is displayed as "/" and not as "\". apart from that, i can not see a difference.
Dude, that is an entirely different bug. Bug 203206 talks about treating an entire thread as one message when sorting by date, with the date of the most recent unread message. This bug just flips the tree upside down.
Hmm... guess this is going to be a WONTFIX. or are we having new options and stuff for doing this??
This ain't a WONTFIX, this is a valid feature request, targetted for Future currently.
sometimes developers decide to not implement every requested feature, and those requests do get marked as wontfix, doesn't matter if valid or not. that's the game.
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