Re: [Evolution] Keeping states

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It seems that this subject is much more complicated than i thought,
sorry for opening it, i will recompile Evo 1.4 (it was working well on
keeping the states and also the printing was more elegant) :)


On Wed, 2005-10-26 at 13:24 -0400, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> On Wed, 2005-10-26 at 11:33 -0400, Joe Mason wrote:
> > On Tue, Oct 25, 2005 at 11:44:19AM +0930, Iain Buchanan wrote:
> > > 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).
> >
> > Seems like the best thing to keep is (a) which message is selected, and
> > (b) which message is currently the topmost visible in the window.  Then
> > you would scroll to (b) on returning to the folder, and altough it might
> > scroll to somewhere different from the original place, it'll always at
> > least have something to do with which messages were displayed before, no
> > matter what scroll position they end up as.
>
> Except that the message might no longer be there. People use a variety
> of mailers, including multiple instances of Evo (I do, though they're
> not concurrent). As long as the state is kept local to each instance and
> not on the mail server, you can't know what happened between one
> activation and the next, so you need a fallback. But given that people
> can order the folder index on a lot of different fields, it's not clear
> what the fallback should be. I'd be happier if it was the bottom message
> rather than the top one, but that's just me. It would be nice to have it
> configurable ...
>
> poc
>
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