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List:       kfm-devel
Subject:    Re: Fwd: Bug#5880: Problems with long mails (only text mails)
From:       Lars Knoll <Lars.Knoll () mpi-hd ! mpg ! de>
Date:       2000-07-06 11:17:07
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On Thu, 6 Jul 2000, Don Sanders wrote:

> We talked about this khtml widget problem earlier and I thought the problem 
> had been fixed. Either this problem was never fixed or it has resurfaced.
> 
> On Sun, 02 Jul 2000, Oliver Mathis wrote:
> > Package: kmail
> > Version: 1.1.50 (KDE 1.91 Beta >= 20000608)
> > Severity: normal
> >
> > Kmail has problems with viewing long text mails (such as newsletter from
> > freshmeat.net). It takes a long time till Kmail displays the mail. Somtimes
> > it crushes and its not possible to shut down the x-server.
> 
> I reproduced this problem by mailing myself a long text document. On this 
> (dual 650?) machine it takes about a minute to render a 240KB document, for a 
> more average machine it would take a lot longer.
> 
> I attempted to work around the problem by splitting the document up into 100 
> line chunks (actually this is already done) and passing them to the html 
> widget with seperate KHTMLPart::write statements (as was recommended to me 
> earlier). This did not help.
> 
> This is a pretty bad problem (almost as bad as the flickering problem) and 
> I'm wondering if anything can be done about it.

I know about it. I just didn't have time to fix it up to now. There must
be something going wrong in the layouting routine for some long
pages. But it's very high up on my TODO list for khtml, and from Sunday on
I'll do bugfixing on the lib full time :-)

> About the flickering problem I got a nice mail back from Simon saying that 
> using the background color of the parent widget as the background color of 
> the html widget seemed sensible, but didn't hear anything back after that. 
> Did things stall or was a fix committed?

Simon comitted a fix.

Lars

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