Bug 93813 – Evolution-2.2.1.1 fails to properly restore vertical scroll postition of mail folders

• Status: RESOLVED UPSTREAM
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Ivan Yosifov 2005-05-24 08:56:34 UTC]

I have several mail folders. If I change to a folder, move the vertical scroll
of the email list to some postition, then change to an other folder ,then change
back to the original one, the scroll will be restored to where I left it, no
matter if I moved it while in the other folder. 

Yet, when I start Evolution the scroll is always postioned on top of the list,
not where I left it. This only happens on startup, if after startup I move to an
other folder and then back, the scroll will be restored to where it was the last
time I used Evolution.


Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1.Start Evolution
2.Go to mail folder A and move the vertical scroll of the mail list to some pos
3.Close Evolution 
4.Start Evolution, the current folder is A, the scroll is at the top
5.Go to folder B
6.Go to folder A, the scroll pos is restored to where it was when we shut
Evolution down in step 3

Actual Results:  
On step 4 the scroll is always at the top

Expected Results:  
On step 4 the scroll should be where it was on steps 2,3 .The information is
obviously stored somewhere since we can restore the correct position after steps
5 and 6

Portage 2.0.51.22-r1 (default-linux/x86/2005.0, gcc-3.4.3-20050110,
glibc-2.3.5-r0, 2.6.11-gentoo-r9 i686)
=================================================================
System uname: 2.6.11-gentoo-r9 i686 Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 3.20GHz
Gentoo Base System version 1.6.12
dev-lang/python:     2.3.5
sys-apps/sandbox:    1.2.8
sys-devel/autoconf:  2.13, 2.59-r6
sys-devel/automake:  1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.5
sys-devel/binutils:  2.16
sys-devel/libtool:   1.5.18
virtual/os-headers:  2.6.11
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86 ~x86"
AUTOCLEAN="yes"
CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
CFLAGS="-O2 -march=pentium4 -mtune=pentium4 -msse2 -fomit-frame-pointer
-momit-leaf-frame-pointer -mfpmath=sse -pipe"
CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3.4/env
/usr/kde/3.4/share/config /usr/kde/3.4/shutdown /usr/kde/3/share/config
/usr/lib/X11/xkb /usr/lib/mozilla/defaults/pref /usr/share/config
/var/qmail/control"
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/texmf/web2c /etc/env.d"
CXXFLAGS="-O2 -march=pentium4 -mtune=pentium4 -msse2 -fomit-frame-pointer
-momit-leaf-frame-pointer -mfpmath=sse -pipe -fvisibility-inlines-hidden"
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles"
FEATURES="autoconfig distlocks sandbox sfperms strict"
GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://gentoo.ITDNet.net/gentoo"
LANG="en_US.utf8"
LC_ALL="en_US.utf8"
LINGUAS="en"
MAKEOPTS="-j2"
PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages"
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp"
PORTDIR="/usr/portage"
PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage"
SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage"
USE="x86 X aac acl acpi alsa apache2 avi bash-completion berkdb bitmap-fonts
bonobo cdr crypt cups curl doc dvd dvdr eds emboss encode flac foomaticdb gd
gdbm gif gnome gpm gstreamer gtk gtk2 guile hal howl imagemagick imlib ipv6
ithreads java jpeg junit kde kdeenablefinal ldap libg++ libwww mad mikmod mmap
mmx motif mozilla mp3 mpeg mysql ncurses nls nptl nvidia ogg oggvorbis opengl
pam pdflib perl pic plotutils png postgres pthreads python qt quicktime readline
sdl session sharedmem slang spell sse sse2 ssl svga symlink tcltk tcpd tetex
threads tiff truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts unicode usb vorbis xml xml2 xv
zlib linguas_en userland_GNU kernel_linux elibc_glibc"
Unset:  ASFLAGS, CTARGET, LDFLAGS

[Comment 1 foser (RETIRED) 2005-05-27 08:32:59 UTC]

This is a usability issue (choice?) that should be reported upstream, please do
so and leave the buglink here.

Afaik evolution currently has no key for saving this kind of information.

[Comment 2 Ivan Yosifov 2005-05-29 07:45:39 UTC]

http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=305831

[Comment 3 foser (RETIRED) 2005-06-03 06:23:03 UTC]

thanks, we'll follow the progress.