Re: [RFC] Progress dialogue options

[andré <andr55 laposte net>]

Le 2018-01-04 à 21:12, Peter Bloomfield a écrit :
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> Hi Albrecht:
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> On 01/01/2018 06:36:48 AM Mon, Albrecht Dreß wrote:
> > Hi all:
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> > 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?
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> 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.

+1

However a lot of applications which download files have an option to 
leave an optional download screen open, which shows the names of files 
already downloaded.
That might help keep track of a series of files being downloaded.

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

Regards
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André