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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    AW: Question for Kmail developers
From:       "Ferdinand Gassauer" <f.gassauer () aon ! at>
Date:       2001-01-29 9:52:37
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> -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
> Von: kde-devel-admin@max.tat.physik.uni-tuebingen.de
> [mailto:kde-devel-admin@max.tat.physik.uni-tuebingen.de]Im Auftrag von
> Michael Häckel
> Gesendet am: Montag, 29. Jänner 2001 10:00
> An: kde-devel@max.tat.physik.uni-tuebingen.de
> Betreff: Re: Question for Kmail developers
>
> On Monday, 29. January 2001 05:16, Jon Aseltine wrote:
> >
> > Perhaps the behavior you mentioned is logical, but your perspective is
> > incorrect. Imagine your point of view is on that branch that is cut off:
> > once it hits the ground, you have lost all perspective on the rest of
> > the tree (you may have been looking at other branches nearby to cut off
> > next). This is analagous to what kmail does when the root of a thread is
> > deleted: one's point of view is instantly shifted to somewhere
> > completely different, a very unexpected behavior which violates the
> > principle of least surprise. I have not seen another email client which
> > behaves this way, because it is just plain wrong.
>
> In any case KMail does threading according to the In-Reply-To and the
> References headers which contain message ids and can only use the
> information, that the headers of the rest of the mails still contain.
> Currently always, when a mail is displayed as child in the tree,
> then it was
> really a reply to the parent item.
> Otherwise KMail would have to modify the mails, which is IMHO not correct.
>
> Some people prefer threading according to the subject. Then this problem
> would not arise, but therefore some other.

Nevertheless it would be nice to have a "delete thread" where the current
message and all childs are deleted
cu
ferdinand
>
> Regards,
> Michael Häckel
>
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