Re: [RFC] Progress dialogue options
andré via balsa-list <[email protected]>
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Le 2018-01-04 à 21:12, Peter Bloomfield a écrit : > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > Hi Albrecht: > > On 01/01/2018 06:36:48 AM Mon, Albrecht Dreß wrote: >> Hi all: >> >> First of all, I wish you all a happy New Year 2018! >> >> While implementing multi-threaded POP3 message retrieval (related to >> the recent “Is there a way to fetch mail from only one server” >> discussion), I ran into a difficulty regarding the display of the >> progress dialogue. As to display multiple progress bars >> simultaneously, I would use the libbalsa_progress_dialog_* functions I >> introduced for parallel SMTP operations. These dialogues are >> automatically destroyed after the last operation has been finished. >> >> However, this behaviour contradicts the /three/ config settings “While >> retrieving messages”, “Until closed” and “Never”. But the second >> option doesn't seem to display the dialogue (for me, at least), >> though. Does anyone use this option, and how is it supposed to work? > > I've never used it, even for testing! I *believe* it's supposed to pop > up when retrieving begins, and stay up until manually dismissed (or > Balsa closes!). It appears to fail to do that because an inverted test > (missing "!": typo?). I can't tell how far back the bug goes, but no-one > has reported it, that I know of. > >> As to simplify everything, I tend to replace the three options above >> by a simple check box “Display progress dialog when sending or >> retrieving messages”. What do you think – is this reasonable, or >> would it hamper Balsa's usability? > > Very reasonable. I can't see why anyone would want an idle progress > dialog cluttering up the screen, but perhaps I'm missing a use case. +1 However a lot of applications which download files have an option to leave an optional download screen open, which shows the names of files already downloaded. That might help keep track of a series of files being downloaded. > >> Thanks in advance for any insight, >> Cheers, >> Albrecht. > > Best, > > Peter Regards -- André _______________________________________________ balsa-list mailing list [email protected] https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/balsa-list