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. Jeff _______________________________________________ Evolution-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/evolution-list
