[Tickets #10683] Re: Logical sorting of special folders

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Ticket URL: http://bugs.horde.org/ticket/10683
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  Ticket             | 10683
  Updated By         | Jan Schneider <jan at horde.org>
  Summary            | Logical sorting of special folders
  Queue              | IMP
  Version            | Git master
  Type               | Enhancement
  State              | Resolved
  Priority           | 1. Low
  Milestone          |
  Patch              |
  Owners             | Michael Slusarz
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Jan Schneider <jan at horde.org> (2011-11-02 00:28) wrote:

>>>> Now I am confused. There are individual sent-mail folders for each
>>>> identity and of course they are not all displayed as "Sent". :)
>>>
>>> Why not?  They are all sent-mail folders.
>>
>> Because how do you want to distinguish them if they all have the same label?
>
> You have to know the mailbox name (which you can get by hovering  
> over the Sent mail).

No thanks, that's awful usability.

> Displaying the mailbox name in the special folders would be  
> inconsistent UI (your sent-mail mailbox no longer displays as Sent  
> simply because you've defined more than 1?  that is not intuitive).

It not less intuitive than having a bunch (7 in my case) of sent mail  
folders all with the same name.

> I could see adding a "label" option to the sent-mail setting in an  
> identity.  But by default, the mailboxes should be labeled Sent (it  
> could be argued that their should be a single virtual Sent mailbox).

FWIW the sent mail folder that matches the default sent mail folder  
name (Sent) is still displayed translated correctly. And I never found  
it confusing that the non-default sent mail folders are displayed by  
their real names. I find this pretty logical actually.

>>> Plus, this is the way they have always been displayed.
>>
>> No, it never worked (for me) that way at any time. And I doubt for
>> anyone else because different sent-mail folders would be unusable
>> otherwise (see above).
>
> This is the way it's always worked for me.  I have 2 different sent  
> mailboxes (Sent and sent-mail) - they both have always displayed as  
> Sent.

It may be caused by the fact that they are all second-level folders.  
But again: this is the desired behavior, and I do *not* want seven  
"Sent" folders in my special folders section.