Re: Patch: fix the progress information when refreshing an imap folder

["Martin Bonnin" <martinbonnin gmail com>]

Hello Sergio,


2008/11/20 Sergio Villar Senin <svillar igalia com>:
> Martin Bonnin escribiu:
>> Of course I do this in the application code :)
>>
>>> And that's all. With this filter you'll only get progress information
>>> about the folder refresh and not about the other operations.
>>
>> See the 2 gdb backtraces below. The first one is the"bad" progress.
>> The second one is "good". Both have TNY_FOLDER_STATUS_CODE_REFRESH as
>> the status code but the first one is called from
>> camel_stream_buffer_read_opp() with inconsistent values.
>
> OK, I got your point. This is indeed an issue in tinymail that we need
> to fix, and it's the fact that an operation like refresh, provides
> different types of information because it's actually a composition of
> some others, like opening summary, update summary etc...
>
> Thing is that almost everything that you could do in Camel is like that,
> so you'll be only "fixing" particular situations all the time. And
> thinking about tinymail POV, as a library in this case, I'm pro offering
> as much as info as possible to the apps. Applications should filter it
> to present it to the user. You could always use the "what" parameter, I
> know it's ugly to compare strings, but I think it's better than fixing
> specific situations. What do you think?

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