GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 619387
EMailBrowser doesn't honour sorting of a mail window
Last modified: 2010-11-26 10:01:21 UTC
In the beginning of this week I updated my system, including updating Evolution to 2.30. Before updating I run `evolution --force-shutdown', packages were updated without problems, but after running Evolution I noticed few problems, some of which could be related: 1. Mail folders' settings were missing - in 2.28 I had threaded view without window showing email content - after update all folders had non-threaded view with email subwindow. 2. I think connected to the above - when reading email and pressing "]" the next email shown is based on time, not on thread. -- System Information: Debian Release: squeeze/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-5-amd64 (SMP w/3 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=pl_PL.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=pl_PL.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Versions of packages evolution depends on: ii dbus 1.2.24-1 simple interprocess messaging syst ii debconf [debconf-2.0] 1.5.32 Debian configuration management sy ii evolution-common 2.30.1.2-2 architecture independent files for ii evolution-data-server 2.30.1-4 evolution database backend server ii gconf2 2.28.1-3 GNOME configuration database syste ii gnome-icon-theme 2.30.2.1-1 GNOME Desktop icon theme ii libart-2.0-2 2.3.21-1 Library of functions for 2D graphi ii libatk1.0-0 1.30.0-1 The ATK accessibility toolkit ii libc6 2.10.2-9 Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib ii libcairo2 1.8.10-4 The Cairo 2D vector graphics libra ii libcamel1.2-14 2.30.1-4 The Evolution MIME message handlin ii libcanberra-gtk0 0.24-1 Gtk+ helper for playing widget eve ii libcanberra0 0.24-1 a simple abstract interface for pl ii libdbus-1-3 1.2.24-1 simple interprocess messaging syst ii libdbus-glib-1-2 0.86-1 simple interprocess messaging syst ii libebackend1.2-0 2.30.1-4 Utility library for evolution data ii libebook1.2-9 2.30.1-4 Client library for evolution addre ii libecal1.2-7 2.30.1-4 Client library for evolution calen ii libedataserver1.2-11 2.30.1-4 Utility library for evolution data ii libedataserverui1.2-8 2.30.1-4 GUI utility library for evolution ii libegroupwise1.2-13 2.30.1-4 Client library for accessing group ii libenchant1c2a 1.4.2-3.6 a wrapper library for various spel ii libevolution 2.30.1.2-2 evolution libraries ii libfontconfig1 2.8.0-2.1 generic font configuration library ii libfreetype6 2.3.11-1 FreeType 2 font engine, shared lib ii libgconf2-4 2.28.1-3 GNOME configuration database syste ii libgdata-google1.2-1 2.30.1-4 Client library for accessing Googl ii libgdata1.2-1 2.30.1-4 Client library for accessing Googl ii libglib2.0-0 2.24.1-1 The GLib library of C routines ii libgnome-desktop-2-17 2.30.0-2 Utility library for loading .deskt ii libgnomecanvas2-0 2.30.1-1 A powerful object-oriented display ii libgtk2.0-0 2.20.1-1 The GTK+ graphical user interface ii libgtkhtml-editor0 3.30.1-2 HTML rendering/editing library - e ii libgtkhtml3.14-19 3.30.1-2 HTML rendering/editing library - r ii libgweather1 2.30.0-2 GWeather shared library ii libical0 0.44-3 iCalendar library implementation i ii libice6 2:1.0.6-1 X11 Inter-Client Exchange library ii libnotify1 [libnotify1- 0.4.5-1 sends desktop notifications to a n ii libnspr4-0d 4.8.4-1 NetScape Portable Runtime Library ii libnss3-1d 3.12.6-2 Network Security Service libraries ii libpango1.0-0 1.28.0-1 Layout and rendering of internatio ii libsm6 2:1.1.1-1 X11 Session Management library ii libsoup2.4-1 2.30.1-1 an HTTP library implementation in ii libsqlite3-0 3.6.23.1-2 SQLite 3 shared library ii libstartup-notification 0.10-1 library for program launch feedbac ii libunique-1.0-0 1.1.6-1 Library for writing single instanc ii libxml2 2.7.7.dfsg-2 GNOME XML library ii zlib1g 1:1.2.3.4.dfsg-3 compression library - runtime Versions of packages evolution recommends: ii bogofilter 1.2.1-2 a fast Bayesian spam filter (dummy ii evolution-plugins 2.30.1.2-2 standard plugins for Evolution ii evolution-webcal 2.28.0-1 webcal: URL handler for GNOME and ii gnome-desktop-data 2.30.0-2 Common files for GNOME desktop app ii yelp 2.30.1+webkit-1 Help browser for GNOME Versions of packages evolution suggests: pn bug-buddy <none> (no description available) ii evolution-dbg 2.30.1.2-2 debugging symbols for Evolution pn evolution-exchange <none> (no description available) pn evolution-plugins-experimenta <none> (no description available) ii gnupg 1.4.10-3 GNU privacy guard - a free PGP rep ii network-manager 0.8-1 network management framework daemo
Thanks for a bug report. I tried to reproduce this with just released evolution 2.32.0 and I do not see the issue. I sort my messages by Date, newest messages at the bottom, and when I mark as unread few messages in one thread, even those times are interleaving between leaves, then pressing ctrl+[ or ctrl+] always goes from top to bottom or vice versa for me. Could you place here a screenshot of the message list with all private information hidden, only keep there the Date column visible, threading being obvious, and which messages are unread, so I will be able to try to reproduce it here, please? Please mention also your sorting options for the message list. Thanks in advance.
Created attachment 171955 [details] Example of thread with improper order during reading In this screenshot there are 3 unread messages. If I open preview window (Ctrl-M), start reading message by Dave Page, and press ], next displayed message is one by Devrim Gunduz, according to threading. If, on the other hand, I double-click on selected message, opening it in new window, and then press ], next displayed message is by Dave Page from different thread (down in the screenshot). For me it looks like when there is preview window opened, order of messages is according to threads, but when message is displayed in separete window, Evolution does not take threading into consideration, and orders messages only by date.
That's basically correct. The message display window carries its own (invisible) message list and we don't yet fully transfer the state of the main window's message list.
But it worked in 2.28 - whether I was using preview, or separate window there was the same order of messages. So is it regression, or you rewrote parts of Evolution and not yet implemented everything?
Reopening and confirming. If it really worked in 2.28, then some changes in rewrites of related parts might change the behaviour, though unintentionally.
Created attachment 172174 [details] [review] evo patch for evolution; So the threading state was copied, but not the sorting state. Copying also it makes this behave as expected, going in the order as shown in the main mail window.
Created commit c0050ee in evo master (2.91.1+) Created commit 03acdfb in evo gnome-2-32 (2.32.1+)
*** Bug 622423 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***