Bug 72631

Summary:	Don't replicate subjects in tree of emails
Product:	[Unmaintained] kmail	Reporter:	Thomas Zander <zander>
Component:	general	Assignee:	kdepim bugs <kdepim-bugs>
Status:	RESOLVED DUPLICATE
Severity:	wishlist
Priority:	NOR
Version First Reported In:	1.5.94
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	unspecified
OS:	Linux
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Description Thomas Zander 2004-01-14 14:29:22 UTC

Version:           1.5.94 (using KDE 3.1.94 (CVS >= 20031206), compiled sources)
Compiler:          gcc version 3.3.2 (Debian)
OS:          Linux (i686) release 2.6.1dell-optiplex

In Mutt emails in a tree don't show the full subject for each email; only when the subject has changed from the previous email.

I would really like to see that feature in KMail since changed email subjects are quite hard to spot in a bug tree of emails.

Additionally this would save screen real-estate by not making the deep nested emails take tree-indention space as well as subject space.

Comment 1 Christian Loose 2004-01-14 15:23:20 UTC

A screenshot showing this feature:
http://www.mutt.org/screenshots/index.gif

Comment 2 Ingo Klöcker 2004-01-14 16:59:49 UTC

Hmm, from looking at the screenshot I don't like this at all. But I guess I would have to use it for some time to see whether I like it, or not.

What happens if the root of the thread is out of sight? Will the user just see the blank subjects? This would be unacceptable. The subject of a thread must always be visible. So implementing this is harder than it at first seems to be. We can't just replace the subject with an empty string in the child listview items.

Comment 3 Thomas Zander 2004-01-14 17:08:51 UTC

Mutt uses pages of subjects; so its not really a detail you can compare..
Anyway; it shows the subject again for all emails that don't have an ancestor with that same subject visible.

Comment 4 Helge Hielscher 2004-09-02 04:17:19 UTC

Actually I would prefer the way xnews displays threads:
 
My subject bla bla ba                             myself 
    john 
       frank 
    jack 
       myself 
           You are so stupid (was: ...)           jack 
              frank 
           jack 

The example above was taken from http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=114342

Comment 5 Helge Hielscher 2004-09-04 15:47:21 UTC

Is this a dup of bug 60130?

Comment 6 Tom Albers 2004-09-05 23:32:54 UTC

I second.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 60130 ***