Re: Why Balsa is so slow ? and other remarks

["Bobby D. Bryant" <bdbryant mail utexas edu>]

On 2002.03.29 06:30:06 -0600 Carlos Morgado wrote:

> On 2002.03.28 17:01 Mancini Stéphane wrote:
>> Hi!
>> First of all, thnaks for balsa;
>> I have several remarks, which led me to suscribe to this mailing 
>> list.
>> First, balsa is very slow when it views long messages. It can
>> sometime freeze for several second when scrolling long messages such 
>> as mailing list digest.
> 
> Are you using local mailboxes or IMAP ? If you're using local 
> mailboxes
> that is very strange (ie. nothing i ever noticed), if you are using
> IMAP i'd say it's expected as balsa needs to retrieve the message
> from the server before displaying it
> 
> Another cause may be a very heavy pixmap theme but in that case you'd
> note it more on the compose window

I see the same thing, even when viewing messages that I have moved to 
local folders.

I do use a pixmap theme, but the problem seems to be as bad when 
reading messages as when composing, or maybe worse.

Also, using a smaller window helps when composing, but large messages 
(e.g. 1000 line list digests) are extremely slow to scroll in the 
reader, no matter how small I make the window.  There seems to be 
something in play other than rendering the pixmap, unless perhaps the 
pixmap is being stretched to the size of the entire message rather than 
to the size of the view window.

BTW, if pixmap themes are indeed the problem it would be nice to be 
able to specify a solid background color for the message viewer, so 
people wouldn't have to change their entire desktop just to keep one 
application happy.

Bobby Bryant
Austin, Texas