Re: [Evolution] Keeping states

[Iain Buchanan <iaindb netspace net au>]

On Tue, 2005-10-25 at 09:41 -0400, Jeffrey Stedfast wrote:
> 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.

Just to be annoying again and change the topic in mid-stream - sometimes
when I press "end" in a mailbox with lots of messages, instead of going
to the last message, the window jumps around a bit and some random
message is selected.  Now, everytime I want to go to the last message, I
just hold down the end key, and after 2 or 3 goes, evolution gets to the
end!  Maybe this is related to your race condition?

But before this descends into everyone's favourite pet peeves about
evolution, I am slowly submitting bugs as I can reproduce problems, so
lets hope you guys get enough time to spend on the gui and not just the
internals...
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Iain Buchanan <iaindb netspace net au>