Re: Why Balsa is so slow ? and other remarks

[Carlos Morgado <chbm chbm nu>]

On 2002.03.28 17:01 Mancini Stéphane wrote:
> Hi!
> First of all, thnaks for balsa;
> I have several remarks, which led me to suscribe to this mailing list.
> First, balsa is very slow when it views long messages. It can
> sometime freeze for several second when scrolling long messages such 
> as mailing list digest.

Are you using local mailboxes or IMAP ? If you're using local mailboxes
that is very strange (ie. nothing i ever noticed), if you are using
IMAP i'd say it's expected as balsa needs to retrieve the message
from the server before displaying it

Another cause may be a very heavy pixmap theme but in that case you'd
note it more on the compose window

> Would it be possible to accelerate it ? Why not to use a viewer such 
> as a html (galeon) window ?
> 

using an external html viewer would actually decelerate it has balsa
would need to prepare and execute the external viewer as oposed to
calling the gtk internal viewer. could post to the list or send me
a message where you notice a considerable slow down ?

> Second, it would be nice to keep several balsa processes to be kept 
> synchronized. For example,
> there are some troubles when I launch several balsa processes by 
> error. Some mails appear in one of
> them but not on the one where I deleted it ! It would be nice to

this occurs cause balsa only flushes mailboxes when you explicitly
tell it to (mailbox->commit) or when you close the mailbox. this is
done for speed and cause doing synchronous mailbox updates wouldn't
solve that particular problem as all instances of balsa (or any
other mail program) would spend most of their time reparsing the
mailboxes on each update

> force the use of one single process.

this is indeed the correct solution for the problem but noone as
done yet. this will be done when balsa is made corba aware.

> I think synchronization should be very robust or the launch of 
> several sessions forbidden.
> 
synchronization is robust, launch of several sessions isn't
forbiden :\

> Third, the window of message view is very large (in width) and can't 
> be sized by the mouse !

do you have settings->preferences->mail options->incoming->wrap incoming
set ? my guess is you don't and you're receiving messages with very
long lines. balsa sets the minimum width of the view message windows
to the number of columns needed to display the message

> What's the trouble ? It's also very slow and can freeze  ...
> 

what gtk theme do you use ? 
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