396341 - Subject not seen on long threads.

Status: NEW

(SeaMonkey :: MailNews: Message Display, enhancement)

Description

[Basil A. Sidorov]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (OS/2; U; Warp 4.5; ru-RU; rv:1.8.1.6) Gecko/20070803 SeaMonkey/1.1.4
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (OS/2; U; Warp 4.5; ru-RU; rv:1.8.1.6) Gecko/20070803 SeaMonkey/1.1.4

I suggest adjust subject for current message left, arrange previous messages up, from left to right ("mirrored" vs current) and arrange "nexted" messages, as usual, down, from left to right.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
Open long discussion from any newsgroup.


Expected Results:  
more beatyfull view :-)

Comment 1

[Bruno 'Aqualon' Escherl]

The problem can be really annoying, so confirming as valid enhancement request.

But I'm not sure if you're idea would be a good solution, especially for widely ramified threads. Can you do a graphical mockup, how this would look (e.g. for the "Going live with new start page?" thread in mozilla.dev.apps.seamonkey on news.mozilla.org)?

Comment 2

[Basil A. Sidorov]

Thread will appear as arrow with current message on edge.

Currently each message has some offset based on "message level".
Offset started (and grow) from first message a tread.
Named this offset canonical.

For "arrow view" each message will have "current" offset, recalculated as:
abs(canonical_offset - canonical_offset_current_message)