Description of problem: If you do Folder -> Select Thread in Evolution, the thread(s) containing the currently selected message(s) aren't selected. This upstream maintainer (fejj) is crazy and won't fix this. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): All of them. How reproducible: Always. Steps to Reproduce: 1. Press Ctrl-H or select Folder -> Select Thread Actual results: Some weird collection of messages is selected instead of an actual thread. Expected results: The actual thread is selected. Additional info: Upstream bug is at http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=216485 Current fix is: http://bugzilla.gnome.org/attachment.cgi?id=61803 (Note that this patch requires l10n effort.)
I've added this to my private builds of evo, which also fix bug 187565 (6 months old, crash) and bug 167805 (13 months old; actually reported elsewhere even longer ago, severe usability). It'll be in evolution-2.8.0-7.fc6.dwmw2.2 when that appears later today in my repo at ftp://ftp.infradead.org/pub/dwmw2-fc6/
I agree that the current behavior is misleading. I've re-raised the issue upstream to get a second opinion from the current maintainers. http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=359529
It looks like this has been taken care for Evolution 2.9. http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=262224
Closing as UPSTREAM since there is an equivalent bug report upstream. I will continue to track the problem there. Please refer to [1] for further updates. [1] http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=262224 Upstream developer claimed to have a patch ready for 2.9, but it doesn't look like it was ever committed.