[sylpheed:34435] Re: Sylpheed runtime behavior

[heymanj at acm.org]

On 1 February 2011 at 11:35, Hiroyuki Yamamoto <hiro-y at kcn.ne.jp>wrote:

> Hello,
> 
> On Mon, 31 Jan 2011 21:18:52 -0500 heymanj at acm.org wrote:
> 
>> I have just compiled sylpheed 3.1.0 on two different versions of
>> Mandriva Linux.  One is an older system, 2008.0, the other newer
>> 2009.1.  There is a behaviorial difference that I noticed.  I'm
>> reporting it to find out whether it's a dependency issue or not.
>> 
>> Mandriva 2008.0:
>> (list of message panel not updating after a Get - code up through
>> 3.1.0beta6 did, rc and official release did not)
>> checking for pkg-config... /usr/bin/pkg-config
>> checking pkg-config is at least version 0.16... yes
>> checking for GLIB - version >= 2.4.0... yes (version 2.14.1)
>> checking for glib-genmarshal... /usr/bin/glib-genmarshal
>> checking for pkg-config... /usr/bin/pkg-config
>> checking for GTK+ - version >= 2.4.0... yes (version 2.12.1)
>> 
>> Ctrl-Alt-U fixes the problem, but needs to be a separate action done
>> each time one does a 'Get' :-(  Stepping back to 3.1.0beta6 makes the
>> problem go away.
>> 
>> Mandriva 2009.1:
>> (working just fine beta6, rc, and official)
>> checking for pkg-config... /usr/bin/pkg-config
>> checking pkg-config is at least version 0.16... yes
>> checking for GLIB - version >= 2.4.0... yes (version 2.20.1)
>> checking for glib-genmarshal... /usr/bin/glib-genmarshal
>> checking for pkg-config... /usr/bin/pkg-config
>> checking for GTK+ - version >= 2.4.0... yes (version 2.16.1)
>> 
>> They use different versions of gcc, but as far as I can tell the gtk+
>> code is most critical to sylpheed.
> 
> Please check the state of the following option:
> 
> Common preferences - Details - "Open inbox after receiving new mail"

Yamamoto san,

Thank you *very* much for that instruction.

It solved my entire problem!

I was unaware that I had ever checked the "Open inbox after receiving new mail"
option.

All is working as it should, thanks again for a wonderful software package.

> I've modified the code related to the option at beta7.
> 
> -- 
> Hiroyuki Yamamoto <hiro-y at kcn.ne.jp>

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