Re: [Evolution-hackers] Newsgroup lists

[Not Zed <notzed ximian com>]

On Tue, 2003-12-02 at 08:07, Meilof wrote:
> Jeffrey Stedfast wrote:
>
> >if the subscribe dialog already freeze()'s and thaw()'s the gtktreeview
> >when adding nodes to the tree, then this performance problem sounds like
> >a GtkTreeView bug. Otherwise we need to add freeze/thaw. I'll check up
> >on this in a few minutes.
> >
> It's fixed now that I use the tree structure rather than one main list.
>
> >you might look into caching the result of the folder list query.
> >
> Yeah well, but then again, if I press the "Reload" button, I'd expect 
> Evolution to get an updated list of news servers. So the problem is that 
> if the dialog is opened, one would want a cached list, but if one 
> presses the "Reload" button, a new query to the news server should be 
> done. Perhaps a "FORCE_RELOAD" flag for get_folder_info would help, or 
> would that break things too much?
Would NEWGROUPS be enough for this?  it would be hidden inside get_folder_info.

A force reload could be a possibility if its absolutely required.

Its absolutely necessary to save the list anyway, for the folder list startup, and for offline mode.