Karthik Sheka wrote:
> Hi.
> First of all, I want to say "Well done!!!" to everyone that is
> working on MailNews in particular and Mozilla in general. The project
> is definitely usable now! (for the most part :-)
> I've had a few problems, though, which make mailnews somewhat
> difficult for me to use:
>
> 1 - When I try to download a newsgroup with a lot of messages (ie:
> rec.humor) the entire application slows down, and none of the other
> Mozilla windows are usable (Bug 77872).
the news protocol code runs on the UI thread. it "steals" time slices,
but the UI still updates. (notice, the the progress bar / status text
updates.) perhaps we are hogging the UI thread.
> 2 - The options in the Mark icon (Mark as read/mark thread as read/...)
> haven't worked in quite some time (this is a regression, right???)
fixed in recent builds.
> 3 - View->Messages->Unread doesn't behave as I expect. If I click on
> the little green star (Modern theme) in the read column of a message,
> doesn't that mean the message is read? If so, why does it still show up
> next time I load the newsgroup?
Which build are you using? There was a bug where we werent persisting
the view type. this is working for me on the trunk.
> 4 - GetMsg button (modern theme) should have an option to get messages
> for the newsgroup that is currently being viewed.
Known bug. I logged it on [EMAIL PROTECTED], I think.
-Seth
