[sylpheed:35115] Re: change sort order in all folders?

[Hiroyuki Yamamoto]

Hello,

On Sat, 18 Feb 2012 02:39:47 +0200
Vladi Belperchinov-Shabanski <cade at datamax.bg> wrote:

> 
> On Fri, 17 Feb 2012 09:35:16 -0700
> Craig <freecycle01 at pisquared.net> wrote:
> 
> > On Fri, 17 Feb 2012 10:14:29 +0900 Hiroyuki Yamamoto <hiro-y at kcn.ne.jp>
> > wrote:
> > 
> > > On Thu, 16 Feb 2012 15:09:43 +0200
> > > Vladi Belperchinov-Shabanski <cade at datamax.bg> wrote:
> > > 
> > > > is it possible to change the sort order in all folders?
> > > > I'm about to edit folderlist.xml (and as I'm writing this
> > > > it doesn't seem bad idea :)) but is there other way?
> > > 
> > > The sort order of folder tree is hard-coded, and cannot be changed.
> > > The order in folderlist.xml doesn't correspond to the display order too.
> > 
> > Hiro,
> > 
> > I think he means the sort order of each individual folder (check mark,
> > reading status, attachment, Subject, From, Date, Size) not the order in
> > which the folders are presented in the folder tree.
> > 
> > I would find that feature helpful, too. When I transfer a mail folder
> > that has many folders in it between two different machines via
> > sneaker-net, it would be nice to be able to set the sort order of all the
> > contained folders to Date without having to go through and set each one
> > individually.
> > 
> 
> correct, sort order IN folders, I prefer to be by number/descending.

Sorry, I have mistaken that.

> quick ('n dirty) way is to replace 
> 
>   /> 
> 
> with
> 
>   sort_key="number" sort_type="descending" />
> 
> 
> folderlist.xml
> 
> this overrides previous attributes and sylpheed rewrites correct folderlist.xml
> on next run.
> 
> but doesnt work for nested folders in use (those not ending with "/>" :))

How about replacing "<folderitem " with
"<folderitem sort_key="number" sort_type="descending" " :)

> anyway, option for kind of "default" order for all would be great!

I will consider adding the option.

-- 
Hiroyuki Yamamoto <hiro-y at kcn.ne.jp>