Re: New features + feature freeze?

[larsi@ifi.uio.no (Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen)]

Sten Drescher <stend@grendel.texas.net> writes:

> LMI> Uhm.  I don't quite know what you mean --
> LMI> `gnus-article-sort-functions' is used only when not using a
> LMI> threaded display.
> 
> 	That's the problem, then!  One of the solutions would be to
> apply gnus-article-sort-functions, then gather threads, then apply
> gnus-group-sort-functions.

That's not possible with the current implementation.  Articles are
threaded first, then all the rest is done.  (Turning off threading
doesn't really switch threading off -- the threads are just not
displayed as such.)

> LMI> Well -- gathered threads don't have a score, really.
> 
> 	This is a Bad Thing.  When I use gnus-sort-by-total-score, I
> want the total score of the entire thread used, whether 'real' with
> references or gathered orphaned articles.

That's ok for that sorting predicate.  But how about, say,
`gnus-thread-sort-by-author'?  How are the sorting functions supposed
to sort a gathered thread, when a gathered thread doesn't really have
an author in the root?

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