GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 788934
Add option to have Subject above Sender in Wide view
Last modified: 2017-10-17 16:48:05 UTC
In Wide view (both classic and vertical preview modes) I'd like to have the option to show subject above sender. You can do this in MS Outlook, and I find it really useful as the subject of a thread then stands out. Ideally, mails in the thread would be indented, and revert to a single line per mail with single display of title as first entry, ie currently you have: Sender1 TopicA Sender2 Re:TopicA Sender3 Re:TopicA SenderX Another topic whereas what I'd like to have is this: TopicA Sender1 Sender2 Sender3 Another topic SenderX or, if that's too tricky, at least this: TopicA Sender1 Re:TopicA Sender2 Re:TopicA Sender3 Another topic SenderX Thansk!
Thanks for a bug report. Having the first option would be a significant change, which I'd rather not do, thus it's in the second way. I also made the sender and the topic to be aligned horizontally, thus the tree is much easier recognizable. That means that there are two changes, one for showing Subject above the Sender, the other to align the Sender with the Subject. It required an ABI change and also new translatable strings, thus it's for the development version only. Once you'll have at least evolution 3.28.0, then you can run from a terminal: $ gsettings set org.gnome.evolution.mail show-subject-above-sender true and the order will be changed. The default value of the option is 'false', to keep it as it is now. Created commit 1ad381e414 in evo master (3.27.2+)