Open Bug 459659 Opened 16 years ago Updated 8 days ago

Threaded view tree hides deep subjects (excessive spacing) and losing threadlines prematurely

Categories

(Thunderbird :: Folder and Message Lists, defect)

Product:
Thunderbird
Component:
Folder and Message Lists
Platform:
PowerPC
All
Type:
defect

Tracking

(Not tracked)

People

(Reporter: matteob, Unassigned)

References

Details

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10_5_5; it-it) AppleWebKit/525.18 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/3.1.2 Safari/525.20.1
Build Identifier: 3.0b1pre

Every time a thread is deep the subjects are hidden.
The tree view could flatten the tree afert a configurable amount of nested messages.

Reproducible: Always

Actual Results:  
- message
   - message
      - message
          - messa
             - mess


Expected Results:  
- message
   - message
      - message
       - message
        - message
discussed on IRC.

contributes to situations like bug 565477
Blocks: 565477
Severity: enhancement → normal
Component: Mail Window Front End → Folder and Message Lists
OS: Mac OS X → All
QA Contact: front-end → folders-message-lists
Summary: Threaded view tree hides deep subjects (excessive spacing) → Threaded view tree hides deep subjects (excessive spacing) and losing threadlines prematurely
No longer blocks: 565477
I don't think anything has changed in this area, so =>new . (Matteo writes "I switched to Geary")
Severity: normal → minor
Status: UNCONFIRMED → NEW
Ever confirmed: true

I don't agree with the solution displayed in the Expected Results: above. Progressive indent is bound to get rounded to the maximum indent available where the user is neither able to read the whole subject nor to distinguish the threading:

  • message
    • message
      • message
        -message
      • message
      • message
        • message
      • message
        • message
          • messag
            • mess
      • message
        • message
          • messag
            • mess
            • mess
            • mess
            • mess
            • mess
            • mess
            • mess
            • mess
            • mess
            • mess
            • mess
            • mess
            • mess
            • mess
            • mess
            • mess
            • mess
            • mess
            • mess
            • mess
            • mess
            • mess
            • mess
            • mess
            • mess

An alternative is to allow a user to locally override References: and In-Reply-To: by attaching a new flag at certain messages where she thinks that the subject actually drifted. See bug 1685466.

Severity: minor → S4
Duplicate of this bug: 1772455
No longer duplicate of this bug: 1772455
Duplicate of this bug: 1891123
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