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 :-) > > > I would file a bug, but the behaviour is so hard to define anyway, that > > > what should I expect it to do in the first place? > > > > we know it's bugged and how it should behave... > > I suspected as much :) At least its improving. > > > > > Caveat: Unfortunately Evo remembers the *scroll* position only and > > > > will return to that position. If you get a lot of new mails in > > > > between, the selected mail can scroll out of the visible area of the > > > > list view. > > > > > > why? wouldn't it make more sense to remember the specific selected > > > email? > > > > it does, but we also save the scroll position because you may have > > selected a message but then scrolled to the top/bottom/to some other > > message and then switched folders and when you switch back, you'd expect > > it to be in the same place (and not scrolled back to the selected > > message). > > ah I see, so it not only remembers the selected message, but also the > scroll position, which can mean the selected message header isn't > visible in the thread list... hmm... > > It would be nice to have an option to forget all this > last-message-selected and remember-scroll-position stuff, and just have > evo always go to the very last, (or very first) message in the folder, > no matter what. > > IMHO that would be easier and a better compromise for remembering state. > However, MHO is not everyone elses!! I'd drink to that, at least as an option. poc _______________________________________________ Evolution-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/evolution-list
