[sylpheed:33573] Re: Sylpheed beeps when chang folder

Hiroyuki Yamamoto hiro-y at kcn.ne.jp
Tue Jan 19 17:11:57 JST 2010


Hello,

On Fri, 15 Jan 2010 17:58:14 +0100
richard lucassen <mailinglists at lucassen.org> wrote:

> On Fri, 15 Jan 2010 09:48:12 -0700
> Bob White <bob at bob-white.com> wrote:
> 
> > > > I just upgraded to 3.0.0beta4 (Debian testing) and when I change
> > > > to another IMAP folder, the computer beeps. E.g.: changing to
> > > > Inbox: no beep, changing to Sent: beep
> > > > 
> > > > Can anyone tell me why Sylpheed beeps?
> > > 
> > > additioo: apararently this only occurs on non-empty folders that
> > > have the number of unread messages set to zero (IOW: every message
> > > set to "read")
> > 
> > There was a fairly long discussion about a similar problem in March,
> > 2008.  Here is a short quote from one of the messages posted by
> > Enrico Tröger:
> > 
> > <quote>
> > > I have been using Sylpheed for several years but I'm getting
> > > trouble with a newly installed 2.4.8 version: Sylpheed makes GTK
> > > beep when I open folders containing *sorted* messages. This
> > > happens with any number of messages being in the folder (except
> > > when the folder is empty). 
> > > 
> > > GTK stops beeping when the messages aren't sorted anymore, i.e.
> > > using the menu "View -> Sort -> Don't sort".
> > 
> > You can make GTK generally stop beeping by adding the following line
> > into your ~/.gtkrc-2.0:
> > gtk-error-bell = 0
> > 
> > Then GTK won't beep anymore(needs a restart of running
> > applications). But maybe you will miss then some *wanted* beeps,
> > your decision ;-).
> > 
> > Regards,
> > Enrico
> > </quote>
> > 
> > I had the problem back then, and I think I used the gtk-error-bell
> > = 0 solution, although after upgrading the OS several times
> > (currently Ubuntu 9.10), I now don't get the beep nor I have the
> > mod in the gtkrc file.  For 9.10, the command would go in the
> > ~/.gtkrc.mine file.
> 
> Strange, this is a fairly up2date Debian Testing version. But anyway,
> thnx for your suggestion, I have put the bell line in
> ~/.gtkrc-2.0.mine :-)
> 
> Strange GTK2 behaviour though!

I have finally fixed this problem in svn trunk (r2435) :)

        * src/summaryview.c: summary_show(): prevent beep when changing to
          folders which are sorted in descending order.

-- 
Hiroyuki Yamamoto <hiro-y at kcn.ne.jp>


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