Seth Spitzer wrote:
> Ben Bucksch wrote:
>
>> Seth Spitzer wrote:
>>
>>> mozilla is now back to how 4.x does it, where threading is a sort. So,
>>> sorting by date will take you out of threaded mode.
>>
>> Seth, will the old Mozilla functionality be restored (prefed or
>> however)?
>
> Yes, we hope to bring it back with a pref (defaulted to 4.x behaviour).
How about the following: Threading is a sort, but you can have several
sorts at the same time. for the user, it would be more work in some edge
cases, but less in others (e.g. the one Adam Lock seems to hit
frequently). We would avoid a pref. And, most importantly, it allows
another feature: I can sort for arbitary 2 (or more) attributes.
E.g. I "mark" (with the red flag) bugzilla mail that I need to act on,
but I'm not in the mood to do immediately. I don't get to it for some
time and want to sort uninteresting bugmail out of my inbox. So, I want
to sort for *both* of From and Flag. Yes, I can do that via Search, but
the thread pane is faster.
Another example: I want to see all "new" msgs sorted by person. I can
sort for date first, then name, then subject.
Admitted, this is more work to implement, but would be a cool feature
and a straighforward UI for our problem.
