[Article] KDE 4.2 Review From Inside Out. Part 2: Applications

[Anne Wilson]

On Saturday 24 January 2009 14:59:55 Claude Jones wrote:
> On Saturday 24 January 2009 01:08:56 Eli Wapniarski wrote:
> > I do... There have been huge performance improvements with the new kmail.
> > I'm just amazed at how quick things are now.
>
> Interesting...I was going to post about how sluggish Kmail had become
> for me; this happens when I go from folder to folder, particularly a large
> folder with lots of messages like my Fedora-list or even this one; at
> bottom left of the window, you can see that kmail is doing some sort of
> indexing and you can watch the numbers go up as it counts various things -
> and all this has to occur before a message is displayed; previously, I
> would hit the key to go to next message when I was on the last message in a
> folder, it would advance to the first unread message in the next folder,
> and the message would almost be instantaneously displayed - now there's a
> very large pause - on Fedora-list which has around 7000 messages in it at
> any given time (I have it set to delete after 90 days), this can take 13
> seconds (I just measured it)....

I'm not sure what's going on here.  I see that sometimes, but at other times 
it moves on just as quickly as it ever did.  So far I haven't noticed any 
pattern to the behaviour.

Anne
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