Re: [Evolution] [Bulk] Re: Mark emails as read annoyance

[Ralf Mardorf <ralf mardorf rocketmail com>]

I flagged Andre's mail with the link that shows the names of the main
window's parts, it might be useful in the future.

On Tue, 2013-08-20 at 00:21 +0100, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:

> If it's open, it *is* being displayed, meaning that in Evo' s view, it
> is being read.

So for Evolution preview and view is the same. To get a preview IMO is
something different, than to view a mail.

> But if the preview pane is open, you *are* in fact opening it.

Again, than the term "preview" isn't correct, IOW Evolution can not
preview a mail, but only open it.

> Presumably because it has been selected for more than your timeout. I
> don't think this has anything to do with emptying the Trash. As an
> experiment, try setting the timeout period to be longer (say 60
> seconds) and repeat the above sequence to see if the "bug" is still
> present. Then do the same thing with your usual timeout but keeping
> the preview pane closed.

I chose the max value of 10 seconds. Preview pane is opened. A mail is
selected and marked as unread. It will be marked as unread for minutes,
hours, days, month and not automagically become unread, as long as I
don't switch between mails or folders. Ok, the mail is "opened" by the
preview pane since 10 minutes and it kept being unread and now I empty
trash, so there's no reason to mark the mail read.

Now the bomb drops, while it was marked as read for previews tests, it
now won't be marked as read anymore, neither at 10 seconds, nor at 1.5
seconds. The behavior seems to changes randomly, like the mouse wheel
issue does too. So it doesn't make sense to test what happens, if I
close the preview pane now, I'm doing it anyway. The mail at the moment
stays unread, does not change to read.

:S

Regards,
Ralf