On Tue, 2005-10-25 at 09:41 -0400, Jeffrey Stedfast wrote: > On Tue, 2005-10-25 at 07:43 -0400, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > > On Tue, 2005-10-25 at 11:44 +0930, Iain Buchanan wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > > > Thanks for your comments Jeff. They're interesting. > > > > > > On Mon, 2005-10-24 at 21:59 -0400, Jeffrey Stedfast wrote: > > > > On Tue, 2005-10-25 at 09:22 +0930, Iain Buchanan wrote: > > > > > On Mon, 2005-10-24 at 15:06 +0200, guenther wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > > * When switching folders, Evo remembers the selected mail and the > > > > > > position in the mail list. This even works after closing Evo. > > > > > > > > > > no it doesn't. I know it intends to, but it doesn't do a very good > > > > > job > > > > > of it IMHO. Please don't be upset by this remark, I'm just > > > > > commenting :) > > > > > > > > actually it does, but a particular message is not always in the exact > > > > same scroll position between sessions (new mail has arrived and perhaps > > > > the folder is in threaded view, etc). > > > > > > just to be annoying, no, it doesn't always. Sometimes it remembers the > > > scroll position, but sometimes evo reverts to the "top" of the folder. > > > I notice this because I'm one of those weird people who reads messages > > > with the newest at the bottom. Sometimes I leave a folder with the last > > > message selected (and scrolled to), and when I come back, evo is at the > > > very top of the list (ie. the oldest email). > > > > Me too. I've always found this intensely irritating. It's exactly the > > worst possible heuristic for us newest-at-the-bottom wierdos :-) > > if I recall correctly, this is some race condition with ETable's > timeouts and stuff. Basically, the mailer tells ETable to scroll to a > position and then immediately afterwards a timeout expires in ETable > internals and it scrolls back to the top/wherever.
Just to be annoying again and change the topic in mid-stream - sometimes when I press "end" in a mailbox with lots of messages, instead of going to the last message, the window jumps around a bit and some random message is selected. Now, everytime I want to go to the last message, I just hold down the end key, and after 2 or 3 goes, evolution gets to the end! Maybe this is related to your race condition? But before this descends into everyone's favourite pet peeves about evolution, I am slowly submitting bugs as I can reproduce problems, so lets hope you guys get enough time to spend on the gui and not just the internals... -- Iain Buchanan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> _______________________________________________ Evolution-list mailing list Evolution-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/evolution-list
