Re: [RFC] Progress dialogue options

[Peter Bloomfield <PeterBloomfield bellsouth net>]

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Hi Albrecht:

On 01/01/2018 06:36:48 AM Mon, Albrecht Dreß wrote:
> Hi all:
>
> First of all, I wish you all a happy New Year 2018!
>
> While implementing multi-threaded POP3 message retrieval (related to the recent “Is there a way to fetch mail 
> from only one server” discussion), I ran into a difficulty regarding the display of the progress dialogue.  
> As to display multiple progress bars simultaneously, I would use the libbalsa_progress_dialog_* functions I 
> introduced for parallel SMTP operations.  These dialogues are automatically destroyed after the last 
> operation has been finished.
>
> However, this behaviour contradicts the /three/ config settings “While retrieving messages”, “Until closed” 
> and “Never”.  But the second option doesn't seem to display the dialogue (for me, at least), though.  Does 
> anyone use this option, and how is it supposed to work?

I've never used it, even for testing! I *believe* it's supposed to pop up when retrieving begins, and stay up until 
manually dismissed (or Balsa closes!). It appears to fail to do that because an inverted test (missing "!": 
typo?). I can't tell how far back the bug goes, but no-one has reported it, that I know of.

> As to simplify everything, I tend to replace the three options above by a simple check box “Display progress 
> dialog when sending or retrieving messages”.  What do you think – is this reasonable, or would it hamper 
> Balsa's usability?

Very reasonable. I can't see why anyone would want an idle progress dialog cluttering up the screen, but 
perhaps I'm missing a use case.

> Thanks in advance for any insight,
> Cheers,
> Albrecht.

Best,

Peter
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