[sylpheed:32845] Re: slow down with large folder

[rhubbell]

On Wed, 28 Jan 2009 10:53:58 +0900
Hiroyuki Yamamoto <hiro-y at kcn.ne.jp> wrote:

> Hello,
> 
> On Tue, 27 Jan 2009 11:36:06 -0800
> rhubbell <Rhubbell at iHubbell.com> wrote:
> 
> > On Tue, 27 Jan 2009 10:33:36 +0100
> > Tobias Nissen <tn at movb.de> wrote:
> > 
> > > rhubbell wrote:
> > > > I have a folder that has 19,000 messages and when ever I select
> > > > that folder it takes several seconds to return. Is this a feature
> > > > or a real problem?
> > > 
> > > I think it's by design and that nothing can really be done -- but
> > > I'll leave this to the devs.
> > 
> > Right seems to be true.
> 
> Actually, it takes the most of time to display messages on the
> GtkTreeView widget. I'm still searching the better way to display
> large number of messages.

This doesn't surprise me, Gtk doesn't always scale well.

> 
> Just displaying recent messages by using the quick search feature
> will also help. Try 'Within 1 day' or 'Last 5 days' in the menu above
> the summary view.

Ah, ok, good tip, thanks.
> 
> -- 
> Hiroyuki Yamamoto <hiro-y at kcn.ne.jp>