https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=220297
--- Comment #3 from Geert Janssens <info kobaltwit be> 2010-07-15 15:45:42 --- (In reply to comment #2) > I find it annoying that kmail is always shifting the message list to keep the > selected line in the center. Not only is it more difficult to keep my > bearings > than if the message list is stationary, but the shifting is not smooth and it > slows down the window update. Message display is already slowed down enough, > compared to a few versions ago. So rather than see the above behavior as a > bug, I would like to see it as an option. My explanation seems to be confusing. From your reaction I understand it's not necessarily "centering" I require, but that visually the selected message remains in the same spot. I have quickly tested the behaviour of other mail clients (Thunderbird, Evolution). All of them make sure the selection is not moved after a delete. Let my try to describe the visual behaviour I'm missing a bit better using an example. Suppose I have a mailbox with many message in it. The message list is sized such that I only see 8 message headers at the time. At some point, the 4th message in this list is selected (highlighted in blue or whatever you have as higlighting colour). I don't want that message anymore, so I hit the delete button. What should happen now: * The highlight remains on the fourth visible message (in other words, the blue highlight doesn't move at all) * The message just below the one I just deleted, moves up, into the highlighted area, and thus becomes the new selected message. * All the messages below this one just move up the list as well. If more messages were selected before hitting the delete button: * The highlight is reduced again to one message. If the beginning of the original selection was visible, this one message selection should be the first message that was originally selected (so again the highlight itself doesn't really move, just reduces in size again). If the start of the selection was not visible, I would prefer it to become visible, otherwise I would have to search the message list again to find out where I was. * The first message below the deleted ones moves up into the single line highlight. All messages below move up the list as well. It's written down a bit cumbersome and backwards, but I wanted to stress the idea that the message highlight is the most important visual clue the user has in the message list and this should move a little as possible when deleting messages. On the other hand, I think what comment #2 refers to is the visual effect you get when you delete many messages at once. Kmail seems to iterate through the messages one by one, and with each removal update the message list (which each time triggers the move-messages-up-the-list animation). This does indeed cause an unnecessary delay, but for me this is another issue altogether (and perhaps should be reported in a different bug). This issue is really about the highlighted area itself moving down after each delete and has nothing to do with the animations. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugs.kde.org/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are the assignee for the bug. _______________________________________________ Kdepim-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kdepim-bugs
