Tickets :: Comment on [#9684] Changing sort direction doesn't work

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Comment	>>> We always used to support >>> sorting in search results, and we must still support it. We don't >>> have to support sorting across all mailboxes, agreed, though this >>> would be nice long-term too. But at least within in the results per >>> mailbox, sorting must be possible. >> >> Well I misspoke - we were sorting search results (other than by >> thread). However, this is totally broken behavior because it >> completely breaks search display in every interface BUT imp. e.g. in >> dimp, sorting appears to be totally random. >> >> This is NOT going to work. I don't care what we have done in the >> past, but this isn't going to fly. We either need to to abandon ALL >> sorting in the search views or implement client side sorting. > > I agree, without the mailbox headers, sorting in other views than IMP > looks random. I don't want to drop sorting of search results either, > so client side sorting seems to be the only way out. > >> And in imp, we need to get rid of the mailbox headers separating the >> various search mailbox results. This is entirely inconsistent with >> the way we display search results in the other views. Mailboxes >> should be irrelevant in search results - the messages are all that >> matters. > > True, but at the moment, without client-side sorting, this is the > only way to indicate how the sorting works. I assume that client > sorting is a big task, so maybe we can add similar indicators for the > other views too? > > Short-term I'm fine with how it works now, even if it's kinda broken, > because this how it works in IMP 4/DIMP.
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