On Monday, 2011-10-03, Marco Martin wrote:
> On Monday 03 October 2011, Kevin Krammer wrote:
> > > cool :) i imagine there might be some conceptual overlap with Lion Mail
> > > which shows what emails are coming in and even lets you read them right
> > > from its interface, and that perhaps it could make sense to extend Lion
> > > Mail in this direction?
> > 
> > I think Lion Mail is more about mail content than resource monitoring and
> > control.
> > IMHO like folder view vs. device notifier.
> 
> lion mail is exactly that, an icon that resides in the panel or in the
> systray that notifies when there are new unread mails and shows in its
> popup only those unread in a specific folder.

Right, thanks for verifying.
Hence the idea of something fulfilling the role of the device notifier.

> its biggest problem atm is resource usage since the data from akonadi is
> all copied in memory by the dataengine, some kind of lazy loading should
> be used, but i guess that's for libplasma2...

The entity tree model nowadays should be able to lazily populate its tree.
Anyway, offtopic for this thread :)

Cheers,
Kevin

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Kevin Krammer, KDE developer, xdg-utils developer
KDE user support, developer mentoring

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