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Bug 713612 - Display unread conversation count, not unread message count
Display unread conversation count, not unread message count
Status: RESOLVED OBSOLETE
Product: geary
Classification: Other
Component: conversations
unspecified
Other All
: Normal normal
: ---
Assigned To: Geary Maintainers
Geary Maintainers
Depends on: 713150
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2013-07-08 10:38 UTC by Jim Nelson
Modified: 2021-07-05 13:26 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
GNOME version: ---



Description Charles Lindsay 2013-11-21 20:21:19 UTC


---- Reported by jim@yorba.org 2013-07-08 15:38:00 -0700 ----

Original Redmine bug id: 7212
Original URL: http://redmine.yorba.org/issues/7212
Searchable id: yorba-bug-7212
Original author: Jim Nelson
Original description:

Since Geary focuses so much on conversations instead of messages, it seems
appropriate to display unread conversation counts in the folder list rather
than unread messages.

This would be a bit of a trick, since we currently use values reported by IMAP
that are easy to fetch. In order to make this work, we might have to have more
information about each message available (or possibly conversation tables in
the database).



--- Bug imported by chaz@yorba.org 2013-11-21 20:21 UTC  ---

This bug was previously known as _bug_ 7212 at http://redmine.yorba.org/show_bug.cgi?id=7212

Unknown version " in product geary. 
   Setting version to "!unspecified".
Unknown milestone "unknown in product geary. 
   Setting to default milestone for this product, "---".
Setting qa contact to the default for this product.
   This bug either had no qa contact or an invalid one.
Resolution set on an open status.
   Dropping resolution 

Comment 1 Federico Bruni 2015-04-21 16:00:00 UTC
I support this idea and I would extend it to read conversations in inbox and labels: I'd like them to show the number of conversations, not the number of messages.

e.g. if I'm working on cleaning my inbox, I work per conversation and the number of conversations give me a concrete idea of the amount of work requested.

This is also the default in Gmail.
Comment 2 GNOME Infrastructure Team 2021-07-05 13:26:12 UTC
GNOME is going to shut down bugzilla.gnome.org in favor of gitlab.gnome.org.
As part of that, we are mass-closing older open tickets in bugzilla.gnome.org
which have not seen updates for a longer time (resources are unfortunately
quite limited so not every ticket can get handled).

If you can still reproduce the situation described in this ticket in a recent
and supported software version, then please follow
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Thank you for your understanding and your help.