Re: [Evolution] Feature Requests

[Ettore Perazzoli <ettore helixcode com>]

On 08 Dec 2000 01:47:19 +0500, Jeffrey Stedfast wrote:
> > #2 
> > Currently (0.6), when I move from message to message in an imap folder, 
> > evolution immediately tries to fetch the message.  If I'm navigating by 
> > keyboard and trying to get say, 10 messages down -- this is sorta painful. 
> > Would it be possible to add a thresh-hold so that the focus needs to be 
> > on a message for a few ms before evolution tries to fetch the message from
> > the server.
>
>
> This has been discussed but I dunno what we plan to do about it. Dan?

  This is not just a problem with IMAP.  The same problem exists with
local folders.  If the messages are big and/or complex, GtkHTML takes a
little while to render them...  Even if this is not a long time usually,
it is still enough to make your cursor lag behind badly if you move
around fast.

  So, we need a timeout for displaying the message in the preview pane.
It should not start displaying the message until the timeout is expired.
Actually, maybe we could unify the mark-as-read timeout and the
display-the-message timeout.

-- 
Ettore