Re: [evolution-patches] patch for the e-table invisible bug

[Not Zed <notzed ximian com>]

FWIW its normally useful to install timeout handlers rather than idle handlers.  Generally things like this do not need to happen so immediately, and timeouts avoid over-saving, and "busy loops" if you start calling corba, etc.

On Thu, 2005-02-03 at 13:11 +0100, Rodrigo Moya wrote:
> On Thu, 2005-02-03 at 19:31 +0800, Harry Lu wrote:
> > Rodney,  Rodrigo and JP,
> >     I investigated this bug for the whole day and finally found the 
> > reason. One of Evolution's thread was consuming all the CPUs because it 
> > run the idle function without stopping. I think it has no time to draw 
> > the widgets.
> >
> this seems wrong to me, since the idle callback thus would be called
> only once, and subsequent changes won't be saved, only on exit.
>
> So, here's what I've committed to CVS HEAD, let me know if you still
> find any problem.