On Thursday 28 May 2015 11:42:15 Jan Kundrát wrote: > On Thursday, 28 May 2015 10:03:17 CEST, Pali Rohár wrote: > >Ok, so current patch is not enough. Any other idea how we can fix it? > >Really, really, it is annoying to see changing cursor every time when > >updating count of unread emails. > > On the other hand, the cursor change does reflect the reality; > Trojita indeed *is* working and waiting for some network replies at > the time the cursor changes its shape. >
I understand and think that cursor change is not very good idea... > I wonder where to draw a line. You seem to be unhappy with STATUS > processing. Why? What is your expectation about the cursor change, > what information should it convey? Would you prefer to see no cursor > changes at all? Under what circumstances should it change? > Its good question. When I'm composing new email and every 30s I see cursor change it is 1) annoying and hard to write + think about new email and 2) for me (and probably) other users looks like some error... Maybe move it just to status bar area? Or disable totally any events when checking count of unread messages in all folders? > >And because I want to see that new > >email arrived ASAP, I have configured that update every 30 seconds. > >Which means every 30 seconds is cursor changed :-( > > Just to make sure we understand each other -- this is about showing > the numbers for other mailboxes besides the currently selected one. > Updates to the current one are always shown in real-time if your > server supports IDLE (GMail does, any FLOSS server which is decent > enough to be still maintained also supports it AFAIK). > Yes, it is about updating number of unread emails for all folders (not only current one which is handled by IMAP IDLE). > Cheers, > Jan > -- Pali Rohár [email protected]
