Re: Abysmal scroll speed (was: Re: [Evolution] 1.4.5??)

[Ross Burton <r burton 180sw com>]

On Thu, 2003-10-16 at 18:32, Scott Bronson wrote:
> You must have a speed demon of a computer to not see this!  I have
> an Athlon 2200, 512 MB memory, with Evo's window at aout 1400x1100
> (22" monitor), about 50 folders in the left hand pane and and 1572
> messages visible in the top pane.
>
> Scrolling is _unbelievably_ slow when i try to click on either the
> horizontal or vertical separator to resize the panes.  Horrifyingly
> slow.  Maybe 3 or 4 seconds between refreshes.  I imagine it must be
> this way for everybody.

You mean resizing, there is no scrolling when the panes are resized.
This is a known bug, Evolution recalculated the column widths and saves
the information to disk. I guess the recalculation takes time with that
many messages, but the main slowdown is writing the column widths to
disk.

Ross
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