Re: [Evolution-hackers] Re: [Evolution] Updates of Vfolders

[Scott Dixon <scott metaphorics com>]

On 20 Jan 2001 13:54:59 +1030, Not Zed wrote:
> On 18 Jan 2001 14:24:30 -0500, Dan Winship wrote:
> > > Or at least the message you are currently reading shouldn't go away
> > > due to filters! Outlook has a view for unread messages and I think
> > > they disappear as soon as you move to the next message.
> >
> > Yeah, I think that's what we want to do: have all vfolder changes be
> > reflected immediately, but tweak things so that the currently-selected
> > message can't be removed from the message-list until you select
> > another one.
>
>
> This will be a mess to implement, like a huge mess.

Not having looked at the code, I'll take your word on that...

> I think some things like 'vfolders that only show unread mail', simply
> do not make sense, and i think a vfolder + hiding-on-startup combination
> could be used to effect the desired result cleaner.

I'm not sure what you mean by "vfolder + hiding on startup".  If you
mean that the contents of the vfolder are updated every time you enter
the vfolder, then that is OK by me.  I can live with the read messages
hanging around until the next time the vfolder is refreshed by selecting
it.  As long as the contents are correct for the filters when the folder
is selected.  Currently the behavior is simply incorrect.  That is, you
can specify a vfolder filter rule which is not obeyed.  So the contents
of the vfolder do not correspond to what the rule says.  Either take out
the rule specifiers that you can't keep current with (like all rules
having to do with message status or sent/replied to state, for example)
or keep the vfolder contents correct with the filter rules.  Only having
the right answer when you start up Evolution isn't appropriate behaviour
IMHO.
Actually, the vfolder contents get updated dynamically now when new mail
arrives so I'm not sure what is so hard about updating the contents when
you change the status of a message (like by reading it).