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List:       kmail-devel
Subject:    Re: Bug#2988 acknowledged by developer (Sort order not remembered:)
From:       Don Sanders <don () sanders ! org>
Date:       2000-04-21 2:27:59
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On Fri, 21 Apr 2000, you wrote:
> Sorry to bother you about this, but I still get this one too, even with
> the latest from cvsup.
>
> Basically, here are the steps I do:
>
> 1. Launch KMail.
> 2. Notice that the most recent message is at the bottom of the list.
> 3. Notice that none of the column headings have the little triangle
> indicating sort order.

No, for me KMail remembers the last sort column selected for each folder. So 
when I start KMail my inbox is sorted by order of arrival.

> 4. Now, click on the "Date" column heading.
> 5. Notice that the most recent message is still at the bottom of the
> list.
> 6. Notice that the little triangle now appears next to the word "Date",
> and is pointing up.
> 7. Click on the "Date" column heading again.
> 8. Notice that the most recent mail is now at the top of the list (where
> nature intended it to be. :-)
> 9. Notice that the little triangle is now pointing down.
> 10. Click on "outbox"
> 11. Notice that the little triangle is now pointing up.
> 12. Click on "inbox"
> 13. Notice that the most recent mail is once again at the bottom of the
> list.
> 14. Notice that the little triangle next to the "Date" column heading is
> gone.

You are the second person to report this, I don't know why it's working for 
me but not other people.

>
> Also, I notice that sometimes the column heading says "Date (Order of
> Arrival)" and sometimes just says "Date". It seems to change every two
> clicks, that is if I continue to click on the column heading repeatedly,
> I get the following sequence:

It's meant to be that way, when it shows "Date (Order of Arrival)" it's 
sorting by order of arrival, when it shows "Date" it's sorting by date.

>
> "Date (Order of Arrival)" [no triangle]
> "Date (Order of Arrival)" [up]
> "Date" [down]
> "Date" [up]
> "Date (Order of Arrival)" [down]
> "Date (Order of Arrival)" [up]
> "Date" [down]
> "Date" [up]
>
> .... etc.
>
> Stephan Kulow wrote:
> > This is an automatic notification regarding your bug report.
> >
> > It has been closed by one of the developers, namely
> > Don Sanders <don@sanders.org>.
> >
> > Their explanation is attached below.  If this explanation is
> > unsatisfactory and you haven't received a better one in a separate
> > message then please contact the developer directly, or email
> > submit@bugs.kde.org or me.
> >
> > Stephan Kulow
> > (administrator, KDE bugs database)
> >
> > Received: (at 2988-done) by bugs.kde.org; 18 Apr 2100 10:13:39 +0000
> >
> > >From dsanders@cch.com.au Tue Apr 18 12:13:39 2000
> >
> > Received: from hades.cch.com.au ([203.18.39.1]:40834 "EHLO
> > hades.cch.com.au") by max.tat.physik.uni-tuebingen.de with ESMTP id
> > <S742524AbQDRKN2>; Tue, 18 Apr 2000 12:13:28 +0200
> > Received: from cch.com.au (drongo [128.66.100.9])
> >         by hades.cch.com.au (8.8.8+Sun/8.8.8) with SMTP id UAA28785
> >         for <2988-done@bugs.kde.org>; Tue, 18 Apr 2000 20:15:46 +1000
> > (EST) Received: from [128.66.248.154] by cch.com.au (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4) id
> > UAA24409; Tue, 18 Apr 2000 20:15:45 +1000
> > From:   Don Sanders <don@sanders.org>
> > To:     2988-done@bugs.kde.org
> > Subject: Done
> > Date:   Fri, 21 Apr 2000 22:57:03 +1000
> > X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.1.40]
> > Content-Type: text/plain
> > MIME-Version: 1.0
> > Message-Id: <0004212257030E.00737@localhost.localdomain>
> > Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit
> > Return-Path: <dsanders@cch.com.au>
> > X-Orcpt: rfc822;2988-done@bugs.kde.org
> >
> > Cannot reproduce.

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