[Tickets #5902] Re: Option to go straight to thread view

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Ticket URL: http://bugs.horde.org/ticket/?id=5902
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 Ticket             | 5902
 Updated By         | Jan Schneider <jan at horde.org>
 Summary            | Option to go straight to thread view
 Queue              | IMP
 Version            | HEAD
 Type               | Enhancement
 State              | Feedback
 Priority           | 1. Low
 Owners             | 
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Jan Schneider <jan at horde.org> (2007-11-22 16:17) wrote:

> I'm pretty unhappy with this. I was already bugged by the 
> inconsistency of indenting threaded messages (when there are multiple 
> top-level messages in a thread, they both have the same indenting as 
> a reply in another thread);

I had to get used to that too, but now I find it rather intuitive and
actually more consistent  than the old behavior. Did I get something
wrong?

> this introduces another variation. And I

Why does it introduce a variation? It's the same for any thread and this
little icon is the least intrusive solution I could come up with without
rewriting the whole mailbox rendering which is out of the question at this
moment. But of course I'm open for better UI ideas.

> still really think that if we're going to do something like this we 
> should take the cue from Gmail and show only one message in the list, 
> with a link to the full thread.

Yeah, that would be the ultimate goal, but is this intermediate solution
really that bad? I'm not attached to exactly this implementation, but I
really want this feature, and I want to get it in before the RC1.