30747 - Sort threads by date, newest first, is confusing

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 20385

(MailNews Core :: Backend, defect, P2)

Description

[Richard Zach]

If you have threaded view and sort by date with newest first, the messages
inside a thread are sorted by date, newest first, as well. This makes for a
confusing thread display, since later messages will appear below a message if
it's a reply and above if it's a reply to the thread leader.  Similar things
happen when you sort on another column.

I would expect threaded sort by date descending to work exactly like descending
thread view in NS 4.7, where the threads are displayed as usual, but sorted by
date of thread leader, newest first.  Alternatively, you could make the behavior
I requested in bug 20385, namely to sort threads by date of newest message.

Linux build 2000.03.06.09

Comment 1

[David :Bienvenu]

Hey, Scott, do we have any control over this?

Comment 2

[scottputterman]

we currently don't have control over this, but the goal is to make it so that 
only top level messages are sorted and that everything else is by order 
received.

Comment 3

[scottputterman]

moving to future milestone.

Comment 4

[scottputterman]

nominating for mail3, and reassigning to sspitzer

Comment 5

[scottputterman]

marking nsbeta1+ and moving to mozilla0.8.  

Comment 6

[scottputterman]

moving to mozilla0.9

Comment 7

[scottputterman]

marking nsbeta1-. We are going to focus on thread pane performance rather than this.

Comment 8

[Vaclav Dvorak]

Bug 20385 mentioned in comment 0 is now fixed - is this still relevant? I don't
think so. I propose closing this bug as duplicate of bug 20385, because the
original bug description mentioned that as an acceptable way of solving the
problem and that has been done.

Comment 9

[Vaclav Dvorak]

No objections to my previous comment after 3 months => resolving.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 20385 ***