GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 202257
Configurable folder tree sorting
Last modified: 2019-03-15 12:00:22 UTC
The sorting of folders within a storage should be configurable. A tree should be alphabetical until the user touches it, and after that, new folders should probably appear at the bottom of the list. This would allow people to group their mail folders separately from their contact folders, for instance, and also to put Inbox/Drafts/Sent at the front and other folders after them, or whatever the user happens to want to do
*** bug 208733 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
I'd like to vote for this one. It shouldn't be that hard?
*** bug 217104 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
I'd like to also see this feature soon. It's very annoying that INBOX is somewhere in middle of looong folder list.
please support this feature. i have a big list of inboxes, i want to sort my important ones to show at the top, i don't want to see at the top the sent/trash/draft which are folders i don't usually look at.
*** Bug 218470 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
*** Bug 234539 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Inheriting "Blocks bug" from duplicate bug 234539.
updating version number.
*** Bug 272875 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
*** Bug 351025 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
(In reply to comment #11) > *** Bug 351025 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. *** > This bug and 351025 touches two different issues. This bug seam to be about ordering folders within an account, bug 351025 is about ordering of the accounts. If you want to kill two birds with one stone, fine by me. Just wanted make things clear
*** Bug 469169 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
*** Bug 485436 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Enhancement request in OpenSUSE also https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=219756
Bumping version to a stable release.
*** Bug 599609 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Any proposals for how the user would go about reordering folders? Drag and drop is out, because that metaphor is already used for moving folders to other folders and we can't overload it. Only thing I can think of is to convert the folder subscriptions dialog to a more general "manage your folders" dialog.
Firefox bookmarks are re-ordered using d-n-d and seem to be able to manage both dropping a bookmark between two others and dropping one into a further level of folder. If that's not viable, there's already a dialogue for folder subscriptions (on IMAP). Perhaps that could be generalized in some way.
The difference is Firefox doesn't kick off a potentially long running network operation if you miss your drop target by a couple pixels. Plus, reordering folders would not be reflected on the server-side, whereas moving a folder into another folder is. Mixing metaphors like that is always a recipe for confusion. Revamping the subscription dialog is sounding like the way to go. That thing needs some love anyway.
Point taken. I agree that the best way seems to be via the sub dialogue.
My bug was marked as a duplicate, but I'm not sure we're talking about the same thing. Thunderbird has a feature where you can right-click on a folder and mark it as a "Favorite." The folder pane cycles between the following: - All folders - Unread folders - Favorite folders - Recent folders - Some other one I forget about In my case, it would be sufficient to have something that ressembles the Search Folders and call it "Favorit Folders" and put them at the top of the account list. In my case, I am not necessarily looking for a general "sort the tree" approach, just a way to make the most commonly used folders more preeminent. I think I have another bug open, though, for sorting accounts only, not folders within accounts. L
There are clearly several ways of achieving much the same desired result: letting the user have some control over how folders are presented in the list. The TB design is useful in some situations and would avoid having to allow general reordering. I think just three alternative views would be enough: - All (including Search folders) - Favourites (i.e. marked as such with a folder property) - Search folders and really the Favourites view isn't that essential since you can always use Search folders as a standin. Of course a minimalist design could just support Search folders and nothing else, but I'm guessing we don't want to scare away *all* the users :-)
Oh! Yeah, that actually works for me. Now, if we could move search folders at the TOP of the list...
New proposal: Two folder lists: All and Search. All is the same as the current folder view, Search can be reordered by the user. Since Search folders are entirely local to the client, this shouldn't have any server implications.
What do you think about adding a couple tabs beneath the folder tree labelled "All Folders" and "Search Folders"? In the "All Folders" tab you can either right-click on a folder or open the "Folder" menu and select "Add to Search Folders" as a quick and easy way to add the folder to the "Search Folders" tab. Also, I've been toying with the idea of adding a second special search folder called "All Inboxes" which would combine the Inboxes of all your enabled accounts into one view, and would keep itself up-to-date as you add and remove accounts.
(In reply to comment #26) > What do you think about adding a couple tabs beneath the folder tree labelled > "All Folders" and "Search Folders"? In the "All Folders" tab you can either > right-click on a folder or open the "Folder" menu and select "Add to Search > Folders" as a quick and easy way to add the folder to the "Search Folders" tab. Presumably the search criteria could then be edited. Would the search folder version have an editable name (I assume so)? However let's not forget that people want to be able to order folders (Search folders in this case) other than lexically, and not just by prepending "aaa-" or whatever to the name. > Also, I've been toying with the idea of adding a second special search folder > called "All Inboxes" which would combine the Inboxes of all your enabled > accounts into one view, and would keep itself up-to-date as you add and remove > accounts. Sure, why not. I'm not a fan of unified inboxes but some people seem to like it. There's also the "Favorite folders" tab a la TBird. However this is all candy. Having just the search folders tab would be a great start.
(In reply to comment #27) > Presumably the search criteria could then be edited. Would the search folder > version have an editable name (I assume so)? Sure, my thought was it would just be a quick way to create a trivial "Match All" search folder for one particular folder. After that you could rename it, change the criteria, whatever you want. > However let's not forget that people want to be able to order folders (Search > folders in this case) other than lexically, and not just by prepending "aaa-" > or whatever to the name. Splitting search folders off into their own tree view means we could play by a different set of rules than the ordinary folder hierarchy. Don't see why search folders couldn't be reorderable.
(In reply to comment #28) > (In reply to comment #27) > > Presumably the search criteria could then be edited. Would the search folder > > version have an editable name (I assume so)? > > Sure, my thought was it would just be a quick way to create a trivial "Match > All" search folder for one particular folder. After that you could rename it, > change the criteria, whatever you want. OK. At some later time maybe we can consider a rather more ambitious idea: support "conversations" via easily-defined search folders. Ditto for defining search folders (or even real ones) associated with mailing lists, e.g. it would be nice to be able to post to a list I'm focussed on without having to look up the address or reply to a thread. That's OT for now of course. > > However let's not forget that people want to be able to order folders (Search > > folders in this case) other than lexically, and not just by prepending "aaa-" > > or whatever to the name. > > Splitting search folders off into their own tree view means we could play by a > different set of rules than the ordinary folder hierarchy. Don't see why > search folders couldn't be reorderable. Go for it :-)
*** Bug 245101 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Let's do not mix thing together and keep this bug for "Configurable folder tree sorting", especially for sorting folders inside an account (for configurable account sorting is bug #351025). There should be opened/found a new/other bug report for the unified Inbox (or how would you call it) and those other tabs for folder view, as proposed above. I suppose it's obvious, but anyway, this folder inside an account sorting would work for the level itself, for sibling nodes only. It's natural, I believe.
Thinking of it subscription dialog cannot be used for this, because: a) NNTP accounts shows there all folders, not only subscribed and it shows them in a hierarchy, where folder tree is showing them flat. b) exchange accounts are showing in the subscription dialog only public folders, and no user folders. Thus a new dialog for this might be invented. What about Folder->Edit Sort Order... menu option, somewhere below Unsubscribe menu item?
This got implemented in Evolution 3.4. Closing as FIXED.
(In reply to comment #33) > This got implemented in Evolution 3.4. Closing as FIXED. No sorry, I read this wrong. Evolution 3.4 allows accounts to be reordered. Folders within an account are shown alphabetically with Inbox at the top.
This was requested again on https://mail.gnome.org/archives/evolution-list/2017-March/msg00138.html Regarding the question at comment 32, that placement seems fine.
Let it be in Folder->Edit Sort Order. It opens a dialog with currently selected folder preselected, then use drag&drop to reorder folders on their levels. Created commit 9fbf6aaaca in evo master (3.33.1+)