Bug 44190

Summary:	selected sorting order changes when switching columns
Product:	[Unmaintained] kmail	Reporter:	koenig
Component:	message list	Assignee:	kdepim bugs <kdepim-bugs>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	wishlist	CC:	ach, bjoern, caco3, nesnera, shafff, tbohaning
Priority:	NOR
Version:	1.10.0
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	openSUSE
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed In:
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Description koenig 2002-06-21 07:21:47 UTC

(*** This bug was imported into bugs.kde.org ***)

Package:           kmail
Version:           1.4 (using KDE 3.0.0 )
Severity:          wishlist
Installed from:    SuSE
Compiler:          gcc version 2.95.3 20010315 (SuSE)
OS:                Linux (i686) release 2.4.18-4GB
OS/Compiler notes: 

When switching sorting columns in kmail to
and fro e.g. date to sender and back to date
kmail keeps the subkind of sorting but the direction is always set to downwards.If your standard sorting order is upwards you
have to cycle e.g. through the different subkinds of datesorting which can be especially annoying if long folders are stored on nfs-mounted filesystems.   

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Comment 1 Tom Albers 2004-07-22 22:54:44 UTC

I can reproduce on cvs head too

Comment 2 Tom Albers 2004-07-31 18:31:07 UTC

*** Bug 78314 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 3 Maciej Pilichowski 2006-03-18 16:06:28 UTC

I confirm this also, however I think it is usability bug, not a wish. Choosing _another_ column is what it is -- choosing another column. Not changing the order of sorting for chosen one.

Comment 4 Maciej Pilichowski 2006-03-19 13:01:37 UTC

Btw. I did a small test and it appears that KMail sorts mails by single column. I don't know if I should another report so I write it here. There should be multi column sorting -- so choosing _another_ column doesn't change the sorting mode for chosen column, but makes it more important in sorting.

Let's say I have
Subject + Sender + ^Date^
and than I click on sender
Subject + ^Sender^ + Date

so Kmail should sort first by Sender, then by Date, and then by Subject. But all modes in _this_ case should be preserved.

If I click again on sender the columns sort order should not change but Sender mode -- yes!

Comment 5 Thomas McGuire 2007-03-27 14:53:51 UTC

*** Bug 123659 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 6 anze 2008-05-09 14:12:39 UTC

This bug is 6 years old and it is (for me at least) the most annoying "feature" of KDE. Is anyone working on this? 

Thanks!

Comment 7 Thomas McGuire 2008-07-29 13:07:26 UTC

*** Bug 167629 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 8 Nick Shaforostoff 2009-01-13 20:02:41 UTC

i believe new message list in kmail from kde 4.2 resolves the bug

Comment 9 Björn Ruberg 2009-12-15 00:06:07 UTC

Tested on KDE 4.3.3 and this seems to be fixed.