It seems that this subject is much more complicated than i thought, sorry for opening it, i will recompile Evo 1.4 (it was working well on keeping the states and also the printing was more elegant) :)
On Wed, 2005-10-26 at 13:24 -0400, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > On Wed, 2005-10-26 at 11:33 -0400, Joe Mason wrote: > > On Tue, Oct 25, 2005 at 11:44:19AM +0930, Iain Buchanan wrote: > > > 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). > > > > Seems like the best thing to keep is (a) which message is selected, and > > (b) which message is currently the topmost visible in the window. Then > > you would scroll to (b) on returning to the folder, and altough it might > > scroll to somewhere different from the original place, it'll always at > > least have something to do with which messages were displayed before, no > > matter what scroll position they end up as. > > Except that the message might no longer be there. People use a variety > of mailers, including multiple instances of Evo (I do, though they're > not concurrent). As long as the state is kept local to each instance and > not on the mail server, you can't know what happened between one > activation and the next, so you need a fallback. But given that people > can order the folder index on a lot of different fields, it's not clear > what the fallback should be. I'd be happier if it was the bottom message > rather than the top one, but that's just me. It would be nice to have it > configurable ... > > poc > > _______________________________________________ > Evolution-list mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/evolution-list _______________________________________________ Evolution-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/evolution-list
