Re: [Evolution] Arrow keys vs mouse navigation

[Lee Revell <rlrevell joe-job com>]

On Mon, 2005-11-14 at 06:09 -0600, Ron Johnson wrote:
> On Sat, 2005-11-12 at 14:51 -0500, Lee Revell wrote:
> > Why is navigating the message list with the arrow keys so much slower
> > than using the mouse?
> >
> > When I push the down arrow to go to the mext message it seems like there
> > is a delay of about 2 seconds before the focus even moves and the next
> > message starts to render.  But if navigate by repeatedly clicking the
> > last fully visible message subject in the message list, causing it to
> > scroll down by one message, the focus moves and the message renders
> > instantaneously.  This makes navigating with the arrow keys
> > excruciatingly slow.
>
> Paucity of details only makes people ignore your question, or 
> give meaningless, "well, it works for me" replies.

Actually this is an Evo bug, it's happening right now.  Pushing down
arrow for next message takes ~2 seconds, clicking the next message takes
less than 1 second.

My machine is a Via EPIA M6000, it's only 600Mhz (should be PLENTY fast
to read email).

How much more detail do you want?  The folder has thousands and
thousands of messages (it's my linux-kernel folder).  Right now about
100 of those are unread.  I'm using Evolution 2.4.0 on a Ubuntu Breezy
system.

I guess the next step is to get a kernel profile and find out where it's
wasting all those extra cycles when navigating with the keyboard.

Lee