From kmail-devel  Tue Mar 04 19:21:44 2003
From: tech () bishop ! dhs ! org
Date: Tue, 04 Mar 2003 19:21:44 +0000
To: kmail-devel
Subject: Re: [Patch] Improved threading (by references and subject)
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On Tue, Mar 04, 2003 at 07:51:20PM +0100, Ingo Kl?cker wrote:
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> On Tuesday 04 March 2003 05:35, Don Sanders wrote:
> > On Tuesday 04 March 2003 07:05, Ingo Kl?cker wrote:
> > > On Monday 03 March 2003 21:50, Till Adam wrote:
> > > > On Monday 03 March 2003 19:56, Ingo Kl?cker wrote:
> > > > > On Monday 03 March 2003 14:12, Don Sanders wrote:
> > > > > > Threading of the kde-cvs is now significantly different due
> > > > > > to subject threading, I'd like feedback on that.
> > > > >
> > > > > Well, I'm pretty sure that I will hate it.
> >
> > The problem is that all the commits for an application are put into a
> > single thread. A bit like turning on threading and sorting by
> > subject.
> >
> > Forcing all messages without subject prefixes to be top level would
> > fix this problem (at least to my satisfaction), so I'm thinking it
> > makes sense to have this as an option also.
> >
> > Essentially forcing prefix free messages to be top level fixes this
> > and the problem with newbies replying instead of creating new
> > messages.
> 
> Yeah, I also came to this conclusion after reconsidering the problem. I 
> no longer think that we need another configuration option. Instead 
> messages without subject prefix should always be considered as top 
> level messages. AFAICS this will require storing a boolean value in the 
> index files which indicates whether the subject had any prefixes or 
> not.

Maybe I'm not reading this right, but doesn't this (again) break the
case where someone changes the subject to, i.e., "Fixed!", or "Found
it!", etc?  See my previous message on this subject, with screen shot.

D.A.Bishop

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