Re: [Geary] Responsivity issue on startup

[Federico Bruni <fede inventati org>]

Hi Amadeus

Please keep the list in CC, so Geary developers can read your messages 
and reply.


Il giorno mar 24 gen 2017 alle 17:40, Amadeus Folego 
<amadeusfolego gmail com> ha scritto:
> Hello Federico,
>
> Thank you for your response. Two accounts, Gmail and an email server 
> from Brazil.
>
> Anyway, the problem I refer to is just the startup one. And it's 
> annoying me so much as to migrate from Geary, but before that I 
> thought I could take a look at the code and fix it.
>
> The solution I thought was to enable the interface to respond to user 
> interactions, instead of showing the spinner graphic, by spawning a 
> thread that fills the inboxes asynchronously.
>
> If nobody's working on this and it's accepted as a good idea I could 
> take a look.
>
> Thanks, Amadeus.
>
> 2017-01-24 7:23 GMT-02:00 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?