Closed
Bug 178323
Opened 22 years ago
Closed 22 years ago
message list clicksort is not "stable" (request for secondary sorts by column click)
Categories
(SeaMonkey :: MailNews: Message Display, defect)
Tracking
(Not tracked)
People
(Reporter: ChristianCallsen, Assigned: sspitzer)
Details
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.2b) Gecko/20021025 Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.2b) Gecko/20021025 When using clicksorting on the columns in Mail, the sort is not "stable". With stable I mean that if I first click on Column "Date" followed by column "Priority", I would expect a sort by Priority, then Date. And if I click Date, Flagged, Priority and Unread I would expect a sort by Unread, then by Priority, then by Flagged, and then by Date. A typical implementation is to use a stack. When a given column is pressed, it's first removed from the stack and then pushed on the top. The sorting order is then top-to-bottom on the stack. For extra credits, the actual "stack" used for the folder is remembered. And threading should just be one of the sort keys (over subject?). Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Click on Summary 2. Click on Unread (green light) Actual Results: Sorted by unread only. Unread emails are not sorted by subject. Expected Results: I'd expect to have all Emails that are unread sorted by subject. Having stable sorts in MailNews (which gets saved) would probably go a long way to alleviating viewing Mail and making sure the "important" Emails are where you want them (at top, at bottom).
Status: UNCONFIRMED → NEW
Ever confirmed: true
QA Contact: olgam → laurel
Summary: message list clicksort is not "stable" → message list clicksort is not "stable" (request for secondary sorts by column click)
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Comment 1•22 years ago
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and tertiary sorts, and quaternary sorts, etc. (just to comment on the addition to the summary). I didn't see this as a DUP of anything else. Is it?
Comment 2•22 years ago
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Confirming that mailnews thread pane sorting is not stable, linux trunk cvs 2002-10-04. Enhancement->minor, this is a bug imo, and there is no workaround. Bug 57898 also mentions stable sort, but also all sorts of wacky ui clutter and modifier keys to confuse people -- so confirming this as a specific bug toward stable sort without the accessories (even without the threading complication rather...), instead of marking duplicate of that rfe. Parity-OE per bug 57898 comment 6. Threaded, sorted view: bug 72493
Comment 3•22 years ago
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IMO, this is a clear dup. And, threading does matter even in this bug. Many people will want to have "stable sort" exactly for threading. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 57898 ***
Updated•20 years ago
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Product: Browser → Seamonkey
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