Bug 304096

Summary: When a thread becomes too long, titles are hidden and selecting mails difficult
Product: [Applications] kmail2 Reporter: Cyrille Dunant <cyrille.dunant>
Component: message listAssignee: kdepim bugs <kdepim-bugs>
Status: RESOLVED INTENTIONAL    
Severity: normal CC: montel
Priority: NOR    
Version: 4.9 pre   
Target Milestone: ---   
Platform: openSUSE   
OS: Linux   
Latest Commit: Version Fixed In:
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Description Cyrille Dunant 2012-07-26 15:07:48 UTC 
When a mail thread becomes too long, eventually, the mail titles disappear and selecting them becomes tedious.



Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
have a long back-and-forth email conversation, always using reply and not touching the title
Actual Results:  
the last messages in the thread are hidden in the display and clicking on them is hit-or miss.

Expected Results:  
some form of "reset" would be desirable, for example
bla
---re: bla
------re: bla
---------re: bla
------------re:bla
_________|
|
---re: bla
Comment 1 Laurent Montel 2012-07-26 15:54:16 UTC 
Not possible to do it.
Otherwise  we must break thread to do it.
=> no good
Comment 2 Cyrille Dunant 2012-07-26 16:05:37 UTC 
On Thursday 26 Jul 2012 15:54:16 you wrote:
> https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=304096
> 
> Laurent Montel <montel@kde.org> changed:
> 
>            What    |Removed                     |Added
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
> Status|UNCONFIRMED                 |RESOLVED
>                  CC|                            |montel@kde.org
>          Resolution|---                         |WONTFIX
> 
> --- Comment #1 from Laurent Montel <montel@kde.org> ---
> Not possible to do it.
> Otherwise  we must break thread to do it.
> => no good

I might have been unclear: I would just like the _display_ of the thread to 
have a depth reset after a while with a marker to indicate that.
Thread display would be:

threadLevel = realTreadLevel % maxDepth ;
if(realTreadLevel % maxDepth == 0 && realTreadLevel)
 displayResetMarker() ;

If this is too complicated, never mind. But can we pretty please have at 
scrollbar appear?

  -- Cyrille Dunant