Re: question: custom balsa_index_model

[Peter Bloomfield <PeterBloomfield MindSpring com>]

On 2002.11.06 13:46 Pawel Salek wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I have a request for development-releated comments:
> 
> We copy each message subject/from/to entry three times:
> - one copy is owned by libmutt
> - second by libbalsamailbox
> - third is owned by gtktreestore.
> 
> One can eliminate third copy in BALSA_2 branch by wrapping up 
> own model of the mailbox but this requires to implement message 
> threading on a libbalsa mailbox level (which actually might be 
> a good idea since, say, we would be one step closer to IMAP 
> server threading) but it would also require several changes in 
> the way we iterate over messages here and there.
> 
> Does anybody see any traps related to such an approach?

This doesn't address the issue of multiple copies, but...we could 
simplify the gtktreestore handling by using a GtkTreeCellDataFunc 
for each GtkTreeViewColumn, and having a store with a single 
column of LibBalsaMessages. The store keeps its own internal copy 
of every string either way.

> I thought also we could soon switch HEAD and BALSA_2 in a 
> following way
> - release 1.4.2
> - branch BALSA_1_4
> - merge BALSA_2 with head.
> 
> Opinions on this?

Sounds good to me.

Peter