GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 212941
Hide read messages doesnt work like hide deleted messages
Last modified: 2013-07-24 14:39:50 UTC
Package: Evolution Priority: Normal Version: 0.16.99 Synopsis: Hide read messages doesnt work.... Bugzilla-Product: Evolution Bugzilla-Component: Mailer Description: when there are already read messages and i select Hide read messages...it works...but...if i download new messages...i read them...then i go to another folder and i go back to the original folder...the already message is not hided...I think "Hide read messages" must be permanent and not only a temporal "filter"...
Hrm. I'm not sure if this is intentional or not. If not intentional, should be a trivial fix, right, guys?
it's not a toggle, it's an operation. thus... NOTABUG
Hrm. I'd like to see Anna test this at some point for what people expect. I don't really think of it as a one-time action, but that's just my gut instinct.
It was pointed out by the filer in IRC that hide deleted messages does /not/ work this way, and the 'hide X messages' switches should be consistent. I tend to agree with this- I'm not sure that this shouldn't be a toggle, but it should at least be consistent throughout the app.
Because of the decision to remap 1.1->1.2 and 1.2->1.4, I'm going to be moving a large number of bugs around in the bugzilla. You can just search on 'body contains' 'Because of the decision to remap' and mark all as read. Please direct all questions about this change to evolution@ximian.com, not the bug. Luis
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 209461 ***
It *is* a one-time action, and that's the way it has always supposed to be.
Aackj! Sorry, this isn't a duplicate. I was trying to look at bug 209461, not mark it as a duplicate of this one. Sorry again, Anna
about what ettore said...i don't agree with you...if i want to hide the read messages...i would like to hide every message that i read...i think it's not logical to do it every time...and , if it was like that, so when u select show hidden messages, that should happens just once...and that doesn't happen...every time u start evo, the "hidden" messages are showed... sorry about my english...
Sorry, this is just the way the feature is supposed to work.
dude, i'm not saying that isn't the way that the feature is supposed to work...u "create" it...and u wanted it to work like that...I'm saying that I think that is not the correct behavior....why?...cause i've used a lot of software, in Linux, in Windows, In MacOs..etc...and not only Mail readers...News readers, and other things...and I tell u...when u select "Hide read messages"...and u read a new one, that message in the future will be hidden...because "you wanted that all messages that you've already read be hidden"...cause u select "Hide read messages".......and that's why i told u about the "Show hidden messages"...i think u have to be consistent...if u show the hidden messages "all the time" when u select "Show hidden messages"...u should hide messages "all the time" when u select "Hide read messages"... I dont want to discuss with u, really, but i wasn't happy with ur answer...=)
Then the feature works incorrectly, ettore. It's extremely inconsistent. Anna, your thoughts, please?
marking as 1 day, but maybe I should mark as 6 months since that's how long it will take to settle the disagreement over what the behavior should be :-) I personally agree with ettore, but maybe the menu name should be changed so there wouldn't be any confusion or something.
Ok...let say that is a "name" mistake...so, in that case, i think it would be good to have an option to hide the already read messages...for ever, until u select an option to "Show hidden messages"... This is like every News reader (at least the news reader I've used) behavior, if u read a message, and u hide the read message, that one won't appear anymore, until u decide it...what i think it's a good behavior, cause u can maintain some kind of order...=) cheers..=)
the reason it can't work this way is that as soon as you click on it, it becomes 'read', and suddenly it vanishes from the list, and because its no longer in the list, vanishes from the message display. i.e. the feature makes the mailer compoletely unusable. If you want this feature, use a vfolder of unread messages. Second, i think message hiding should be completely removed. Its a crap feature that never worked the way anyone wanted it to.
Then, the "hide read messages" has to work in another moment...i mean, when u focus on one folder, you read the messages and then u select another folder, in that moment the "hide read messages" action should be done... so, it's not a "message" property, it's a folder property. If u have used any kind of News reader (Pan, tin, trn...etc), whn u have selected "hide read messages" and u read a message, it doesnt dissapear inmediatly, it hides when u go out from the channel...i would say this is the correct behavior...
I'd be perfectly happy with removing hide read messages, especially now that we have a default Unread vfolder.
Not going to happen.
not going to change so closing.