Re: [Evolution] Message being marked read on open

[Eric Lambart <ximian nomeaning net>]

On Tue, 2004-11-02 at 15:28 +1100, Andrew Cowie wrote:
> Between evo 2.0.0 and 2.0.1 I noticed a behaviour change - a message
> viewed in the preview pane is not marked read, but if one opens it in a
> separate window (double click) it instantly gets marked read.
>
> [instead of waiting the n seconds or, if that subsystem isn't enabled,
> remaining unread until such time as having its status manually changed]
>
> Is that expected behaviour? 

Good catch--and a good question.

It *was* the expected behavior in Evo <= 1.4.x, then behaved
inconsistently in 1.5.x, so I filed this bug:
http://bugzilla.ximian.com/show_bug.cgi?id=58629
...then someone decided to change it, to what you saw in 2.0.0... which
was reported by someone else as a regression bug (changing of expected,
previous behavior):
http://bugzilla.ximian.com/show_bug.cgi?id=65448
...which was then fixed, resulting it what you see today... which I can
see is still broken as I originally reported it was.  Guess I'd better
re-open my original bug.

So the short answer is "yes": Marking as "read" when opened in a
separate window is expected behavior, and I for one am glad it's back
the way it was--but now that the Evo-hacking wizards have gotten the
next/previous buttons to work right in that window, it just needs a
little more love to be perfect.

Eric

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