Re: [Geary] Geary marking new replies to a thread as read

[Michael Gratton <mike vee net>]

Hi Casey,

On Mon, Jul 9, 2018 at 2:24 AM, Casey Stone <tcstone caseystone com> 
wrote:
> It happens when I have Geary open, possibly only when in the 
> foreground or maybe any time, and I have a message thread selected 
> and then the main window is showing collapsed versions of all the 
> messages in the thread. If a new message comes in which belongs in 
> that thread, it will be marked read immediately.

Geary should auto-mark messages as read only if a certain amount of the 
message body (i.e. not including sender, subject, etc) is visible in 
the window. Can you confirm if this only happens if the body of the new 
message is visible in the conversation viewer, and not if the message 
is off screen?

I agree this is pretty poor - as a workaround Geary should at least 
also be checking that the main window is focused before auto-marking 
messages, or even better only doing so in response to a user action.

//Mike

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