[Users] [Bug 4006] Message List navigates wrong way with lists sorted in reverse date order

[noreply at thewildbeast.co.uk]

https://www.thewildbeast.co.uk/claws-mail/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=4006

--- Comment #16 from waldner at katamail.com ---
(In reply to comment #7)
> (In reply to comment #6)
> > No, I was referring (surprise!!) to the new nonsensical behavior of
> > claws-mail, and you know it. But you prefer bullying users.
> > If you think that the "next unread message" in a thread is one that is both
> > older and visually higher up in the summary than the current message...well,
> > it's probably useless to continue arguing (not that I thought otherwise
> > anyway).
> > And you don't even offer an option to let the user choose.
> > Good job!
> 
> No, "next unread message" is (if sorting by date) a newer message. If older
> messages are higher up then the movement is downwards; if older messages are
> lower down the movement is upwards.

Did you even try it? If you sort by reverse date but preserve threads, "n"
moves backwards in threads, meaning it selects the last (visually lowest, and
perhaps chronologically newest) message in thread, and "n" moves to the the
previous, which is visually higher and chronologically older. All very clearly
explained by the OP in the very first bug comment.

> This has been the case for 7 releases, over 2+ years.

You changed a default behavior (which is questionable by itself), and without
giving an option to users who wanted the keep old behavior.

> As for the option, there wasn't one before either.

Of course there wasn't one, before it wasn't needed.

-- 
You are receiving this mail because:
You are the assignee for the bug.