Re: [Geary] Responsivity issue on startup

[Federico Bruni <fede inventati org>]

Il giorno lun 23 gen 2017 alle 22:06, Amadeus Folego 
<amadeusfolego gmail com> ha scritto:
> I've been using Geary for a while, and it has been great!
>
> However, sometimes I want to check an old message or simply browse my 
> emails but when Geary is loading messages it gets unresponsive, I can 
> just see the loading spinner (v0.11.3).

In my experience:

- loading folders (list of conversations) is quite fast
- loading a conversation is usually fast
- loading a huge conversation may be slow and cause a crash

The main speed problem is the first sync at startup. This usually takes 
probably more time than I would expect. Choosing "Always watch for new 
mail" in the preferences solves this problem, IIRC. (I had to disable 
it because it didn't play well with Wayland)

> I'd like to investigate this issue and contribute to Geary to make it 
> even better.
>
> Since Github issues are disabled and I did not receive a response on 
> the IRC channel, I thought I could send this email.
>
> If there's already someone on this issue or it's a wontfix it's fine 
> as well.

The issues are on GNOME bugzilla. A couple of issues related to speed:
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=713468 (conversation list 
slow to populate)
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=713468 (optional downloading 
of attachments)

Usually debugging this sort of problems requires running geary in debug 
mode:

geary -d --log-network > geary.log

If you can reproduce your problem whenever you want, this method should 
work.
If the problem appears randomly, it's more difficult.

Which email server? Gmail?