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From: Jonathan S. Katz <[email protected]>
To: Kyotaro Horiguchi <[email protected]>
To: [email protected]
Cc: [email protected]
Subject: Re: Thread: right-justified
Date: Thu, 9 Jul 2026 09:24:49 -0400
Message-ID: <[email protected]> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <[email protected]>
References: <CACJufxGPUGhtTrvg6-FLR7zVfoaE2cgEYgWwFNQGw+rQ8O-y_w@mail.gmail.com>
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On 7/9/26 12:33 AM, Kyotaro Horiguchi wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> At Thu, 9 Jul 2026 11:16:51 +0800, jian he <[email protected]> wrote in
>> The attached image shows that the ``Thread: `` line is right-justified.
>> Is this the expected behavior?
>>
>> I only just realized that the ``Thread:`` line is clickable. I wasn't
>> aware of that before.
> 
>  From what I can see, it doesn't appear to be right-justified. Rather,
> it's left-aligned with indentation. I suspect that message is simply
> quite deep in the thread.
> 
> On my system, clicking that list expands it to show the parent/child
> relationships between the messages, including the parts that are
> initially hidden beyond the right edge of the box. Given that, I think
> omitting the indentation only when the thread is collapsed would
> probably require a bit of extra work.
^ this is the intended behavior to show both the parent/child 
relationship, and how deep the messages are within the thread.

Maybe we can throw some icons into it now (e.g. &rdsh;) to make the 
lineage clearer, but we'd likely have to still use the indentation scheme.

Thanks,

Jonathan


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