Excerpts from Carl Worth's message of Wed Aug 26 23:15:36 +0200 2009:
> My message here really has nothing to do with Rich's patches
> specifically, (so sorry about that), but his patches happened to
> provide the perfect context for an issue I wanted to bring up. As is
> typical of git-formatted patches, Rich's emails have subject lines
> from his commit messages:
> 
>     [sup-talk] [PATCH 1/2] preemptively load messages when scrolling
>     [sup-talk] [PATCH 2/2] ui responsiveness tweaks
> 
> As far as the git commits go, this subject line is one of the most
> essential pieces of metadata to accompany the patch. Yet by default
> sup doesn't display it at all, (requiring keypresses to display the
> header and find the subject line). I think what I would like is for
> sup to display the subject line everytime it changes significantly in
> a thread, (specifically not regarding things like an initial "Re: "
> getting added as significant).
> 
> I think I'd be willing to spend an entire line's worth of screen real
> estate for this information---it's quite useful when people do
> meaningful subject changes for sub-threads.

Yeah, I completely agree. That would make sup even better for me.

Maybe this could be implemented as a 3-way toggle, toggling between
  - don't show subjects (current default?)
  - only show interesting subject changes
  - always show subject
in a threadview.

-Ingmar
-- 
Exherbo KDE, X.org maintainer
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