Re: [Evolution] Keeping states

[Jeffrey Stedfast <fejj novell com>]

On Tue, 2005-10-25 at 07:43 -0400, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> On Tue, 2005-10-25 at 11:44 +0930, Iain Buchanan wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > Thanks for your comments Jeff.  They're interesting.
> >
> > On Mon, 2005-10-24 at 21:59 -0400, Jeffrey Stedfast wrote:
> > > On Tue, 2005-10-25 at 09:22 +0930, Iain Buchanan wrote:
> > > > On Mon, 2005-10-24 at 15:06 +0200, guenther wrote:
> > > > > * When switching folders, Evo remembers the selected mail and the
> > > > >   position in the mail list. This even works after closing Evo.
> > > >
> > > > no it doesn't.  I know it intends to, but it doesn't do a very good job
> > > > of it IMHO.  Please don't be upset by this remark, I'm just
> > > > commenting :)
> > >
> > > actually it does, but a particular message is not always in the exact
> > > same scroll position between sessions (new mail has arrived and perhaps
> > > the folder is in threaded view, etc).
> >
> > just to be annoying, no, it doesn't always.  Sometimes it remembers the
> > scroll position, but sometimes evo reverts to the "top" of the folder.
> > I notice this because I'm one of those weird people who reads messages
> > with the newest at the bottom.  Sometimes I leave a folder with the last
> > message selected (and scrolled to), and when I come back, evo is at the
> > very top of the list (ie. the oldest email).
>
> Me too. I've always found this intensely irritating. It's exactly the
> worst possible heuristic for us newest-at-the-bottom wierdos :-)

if I recall correctly, this is some race condition with ETable's
timeouts and stuff. Basically, the mailer tells ETable to scroll to a
position and then immediately afterwards a timeout expires in ETable
internals and it scrolls back to the top/wherever.

Jeff