Summary: | Folders-of-folders should show total messages of child folders | ||
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Product: | Claws Mail (GTK 2) | Reporter: | Michael Mounteney <gate03> |
Component: | UI/Folder List | Assignee: | users |
Status: | NEW --- | ||
Severity: | enhancement | CC: | me |
Priority: | P3 | ||
Version: | 3.7.10 | ||
Hardware: | PC | ||
OS: | Linux |
Description
Michael Mounteney
2011-11-05 09:02:09 UTC
I would love this enhancement as well. This enhancement report has sparked a conversation in the Claws Mail mailing list with the current overwhelming consensus being to leave it as is to prevent confusion. I propose making it optional by offering users a box to tick in Configuration --> Preferences. I am astonished that anyone would argue against the enhancement. See for example KMail or kagregator; the total-of-folders figure only appears when the folder is collapsed, so there is no confusion. Regretably, the KSC continues to be unreliable, even in 4.7.2, as well as a performance hog, which is why I am now using claws (on XFCE). A further option that I would like to see is that 0 figures should be suppressed, as this would greatly reduce clutter on the summary view. I think those who are against it are probably used to (and comfortable with) the current method of display. As to 0 figures being suppressed, that would be a nice option for those of you who would like it, but I'm content with them being displayed since it's just three icons. (: Hi,
> As to 0 figures being suppressed, that would be a nice option for those of you
> who would like it, but I'm content with them being displayed since it's just
> three icons. (:
Checkout the hidden 'zero_replacement_char' preference for that...
Concerning the original enhancement request, a tooltip may be the best solution. Having a single column displaying different kind of data is completely anti-intuitive in my opinion... "different kind of data" ? The column shows 'number of contained messages', either directly or indirectly contained. Simple. > Checkout the hidden 'zero_replacement_char' preference for that... That should work perfectly for those who want it. (: > Having a single column displaying different kind of data is completely anti-intuitive in my opinion... It's actually about all three columns - the New, Unread, and Total columns. As an example, I have a folder called Archives. There are no messages stored directly in that folder, but there are three sub-folders in it, each of which contains messages. The way the columns work currently, even though there are 6 new messages, 6 unread messages, and 18 total messages in the sub-folders, the numbers in the columns of the Archives folder tell me there are 0 new messages, 0 unread messages, and 0 total messages: Archives 0 0 0 Folder One 1 1 3 Folder Two 2 2 6 Folder Three 3 3 9 Here is how they would look if the numbers in the Archives folder gave me the totals from the sub-folders: Archives 6 6 18 Folder One 1 1 3 Folder Two 2 2 6 Folder Three 3 3 9 From the responses to this bug in the mailing list I know some people prefer to have the numbers reflect only the totals of any messages directly in a folder and not have it add in the totals from sub-folders. As a result, it would be nice to have this be optional. (: |