From kmail-devel  Tue May 31 21:02:07 2005
From: Carsten Burghardt <burghardt () kde ! org>
Date: Tue, 31 May 2005 21:02:07 +0000
To: kmail-devel
Subject: Re: Splash screen while waiting for IMAP data to be fetched (Re:
Message-Id: <200505312302.08001.burghardt () kde ! org>
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Am Montag, 30. Mai 2005 23:30 schrieb Ingo Klöcker:
> On Monday 30 May 2005 22:25, Martijn Klingens wrote:
> > On Monday 30 May 2005 22:18, Matt Douhan wrote:
> > > I am seing the same thing and the flickering makes one wonder what
> > > is happening, I of course knows since I was there at the meeting,
> > > but I think others might be driven nuts about it.
> >
> > One really hacky solution would be to make sure the splash is shown
> > at least half a second. I.e., if data is ready before, just delay it.
> >
> > I for one won't mind, since as I said I mostly have delays of 1-2
> > seconds and sometimes even more if the splash appears at all, but
> > artificially delaying KMail doesn't sound too nice to me.
> >
> > Better alternatives more than welcome.
>
> As I already replied to Carsten's message on kde-commits it's probably
> possible to get an estimate for the remaining time that's needed for
> folder listing. Then the splash could be suppressed if the folder
> listing appears to be finished in less than another 500 (?) msec. OTOH,
> getting a good estimate is maybe not possible.

I already thought about this but I haven't figured a way to get this easily. 
But this should be possible, I'll invest a bit more time. In the meantime I 
increased the timeout to 1 sec, let's see if this fits better.


Carsten
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