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List:       kmail-devel
Subject:    Re: Blue scary screen
From:       Ingo =?iso-8859-15?q?Kl=F6cker?= <kloecker () kde ! org>
Date:       2005-12-14 23:32:29
Message-ID: 200512150032.31378 () erwin ! ingo-kloecker ! de
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On Wednesday 14 December 2005 23:52, Tom Albers wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I hope you will not hate me for this, but I want to point to
> http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=116773
>
> The blue screen which appears when selecting folders shows up on
> whenever I switch to another folder. When I'm home or at work does
> not make a difference, it is on every single change.  I can not start
> to explain how irritating this behaviour is.
>
> I'm not sure how this has improved usability in any way, but
> discussing that will not be very productive.

If (seemingly) nothing happens after the user selected a folder he'll 
wonder whether he did something wrong. The progress screen shows the 
user that KMail is doing something. Whether a 1 second timeout is too 
short or not is of course debatable.

> I'ld like to know if 
> attached patch is acceptable. If not, I'll close the br and start to
> compile kmail manually with a similar patch, because I really would
> like to use KMail again.

Sorry, but a 10 second timeout is not acceptable. If you want to invest 
a little bit more time on this then you can make the timeout 
configurable (but without GUI option). Please use KConfigXT (just have 
a look at kmail.kcfg and add a new config option, e.g. 
folderLoadingTimeout, and then replace the 1000 by 
GlobalSettings::self()->folderLoadingTimeout()) for this so that the 
option is available in the config editor.

Regards,
Ingo

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