Re: [Evolution] Keeping states

[FireWire BSD <firewire e-tahan com>]

Thanks a lot for the explication.
The benefits for me as you could guess, is when working with lots of
folders and reading long emails, then while reading the email i want to
go back to another folder to search for another email related, then come
back to where i was working in the first long email .... 
For me it's really important, so how to post a bug?
Thank you again.

On Mon, 2005-10-24 at 11:44 -0400, Jeffrey Stedfast wrote:
> In Evolution 1.x, the folder-tree pane used to act like a notebook tab
> and switching folders just created a new search/list/view widget, hide
> the old one, and showed the new.
>
> As you can imagine, this was the source of a lot of memory usage
> (imagine a user opening 20 folders each with 100,000 messages in them,
> each search/list/view widget for each of those 20 folders stays in
> memory - ouch!)
>
> In 2.x I changed it such that we reuse the same search/list/view widget
> and just fed it new folder contents each time the user selected a
> folder. This sped up redraw time and also reduced memory usage.
>
> To do that, tho, I had to modify the search widget so that I could
> get/set state on it (which gets saved to disk and so lasts between
> sessions, unlike in 1.x).
>
> I also tried to save state with the message-list, but that turned out to
> be extremely difficult - partly due to the APIs of the list widget and
> partly because its data can change since the last time the folder had
> been viewed.
>
> I don't think I saved state for the scroll position of the message,
> though... shame on me.
>
> Anyways, feel free to submit a bug - it should work better than it does,
> I agree.
>
> Jeff
>
> On Sun, 2005-10-23 at 10:24 +0200, FireWire BSD wrote:
> > Hi,
> >   There was a very interesting feature i used to use in evolution 1.x
> > and i cannot find it in evolution 2.
> > This feature is to keep the state between folders, for example, i was in
> > a subfolder, reading an email and scrolled to the middle. Changing the
> > folder to a new one and launched a search and read the result. When i
> > come back to the first subfolder in version 1.x i used to be in the same
> > email, the same scroll position. Now in version 2.2 it's not the case. 
> > Is there any compiling option i have to add to get this comportement
> > back?
> > Thanks
> >
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