GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 212490
Task list redraws periodically
Last modified: 2005-08-23 16:35:10 UTC
Package: Evolution Priority: Blocker Version: 0.15 Synopsis: Task list redraws periodically Bugzilla-Product: Evolution Bugzilla-Component: Tasks Description: The task list is redrawn all 1 or 2 minutes. This is quite annoying and CPU consuming. First all tasks are hidden, and then the list is built up agan, like filling in each task, one after another. I have grouped the task list by "category", sorted that column and additionally sorted (each group) by the summary field. The redrawing happens on both, the task list itself, and the small task list in the day view of the calendar.
certainly not a blocker. Setting to normal. Just spent 3 minutes staring at my task list, saw nothing happen. Since my tests weren't realistic , I'm not changing the status. Johann, are you still seeing this with the newest builds? Thanks
Hi! I am now using 0.99.0 [+cvs.2001.11.06.15.07] And the problem happens too. I needed a few minutes to find that out. Perhaps more than 10 minutes. I used the time for reading emails. I opend all my unread emails with a double click and had extra windows. Then I switched to the tasks and put my evolution window in the back, so that it was partly visible under the email windows. I read the mails, and suddenly the task list was "filled up" again.
This is the intended behavior. It reload all the tasks every 10 minutes, so that: (a) completed tasks get hidden as requested in the config settings. (b) overdue tasks change color. At some point we need a better way to do these. I think (b) could be done with just a model_changed signal and a redraw, which you wouldn't notice. (a) is more difficult, though. We either have to re-evalutate the query expression on the client periodically and remove tasks as desired, or we add functionality to the server so it removes the tasks from our query. (Actually just checking the completed dates on the client wouldn't be too hard, so I'd go for that.)
It's not a feature, it's a bug!
Changed target milestone to 1.4.
Can't be done in time for 1.4. Punting.
still happens in evolution1.5-1.5.91.0.200407250730-0.snap.ximian.8.1. this one blocks 19769.
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 264449 ***
chenthill: Why do you mark my much older bug report a duplicate of a 3 year younger bug?