Re: Threading woes

[Peter Bloomfield <peterbloomfield bellsouth net>]

On 12/31/2004 03:53:27 AM, Andrew Conkling wrote:
> Well, now that I've settled into using Balsa (and themed the  
> icons!), I've noticed that the threading is often  
> counterintuitive or counterproductive.  For example:
> The status of threads is preserved through the session, but is  
> not saved on exit.

Saving the expanded/collapsed state of all threads in all  
mailboxes could really slow down both exit and restart.  Balsa  
could perhaps save the current message and expand to it on  
reopening--would that help?

> When a new message is put in an existing (open) thread, that  
> thread is closed.

Should be fixed in cvs.

> Opening a multi-level thread means opening each message; it  
> seems more useful to have the entire thread open when the first  
> message is expanded.

That's the natural behavior of GtkTreeView--changing it might  
make Balsa less consistent with other Gtk apps.  You can use the  
GtkTreeView key bindings shift-numberpad-'+' or  
shift-cursor-right to expand the whole thread.

> And, of course, there's that hard-to-squash bug with the last  
> thread in a list....

Reported as a GtkTreeView bug:  
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=160281

> Is there any way to fix any of these,

Yes...

> or are they just shortcomings in GTK?

...partly!

Best,

Peter