733717 - Conversation threading: reduce nesting in conversation view

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 459659

(Thunderbird :: Folder and Message Lists, defect)

Description

[Arkadiy Shapkin]

Attachment: Conversations.png

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:11.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/11.0
Build ID: 20120222074758

Steps to reproduce:

Participated in a long conversation


Actual results:

The message list has become very difficult to use


Expected results:

Display a list of messages in the form of a linear list when possible

Comment 1

[Arkadiy Shapkin]

Attachment: Example of how I wanted this to work

Comment 2

[Ludovic Hirlimann [:Usul]]

Did you try the conversation extension ?

Comment 3

[David :Bienvenu]

If you don't want real threading, you could try grouping by subject, which is fairly similar but doesn't do any nesting beyond the first level.

We could flatten out the threading after a certain level (not at the first level like you've shown), but to do it right we'd probably want to know how wide the subject column is, which makes it tricky.

Comment 4

[Arkadiy Shapkin]

(In reply to Ludovic Hirlimann [:Usul] from comment #2)
> Did you try the conversation extension ?

Which extension you mean? I use Thunderbird Conversations extension

Comment 5

[Arkadiy Shapkin]

(In reply to David :Bienvenu from comment #3)
> If you don't want real threading, you could try grouping by subject, which
> is fairly similar but doesn't do any nesting beyond the first level.
> 
> We could flatten out the threading after a certain level (not at the first
> level like you've shown), but to do it right we'd probably want to know how
> wide the subject column is, which makes it tricky.

I prefer the sorts of discussions for other discussions, but for some of it does not work very well.

I want only flatten discussions only with one reply at level, we shouldn't flatten discussion level with several replies.

Comment 6

[Ulf Zibis]

Other suggestions:
- Reduce the indentation width as far as there is at least a sufficiant part of the messages subjects visible.
- Bug 871486.