[Users] marking messages in new window as read

[Jeremy Schneider]

Apologies for the slow response on this.


On Mon, 24 Feb 2025 18:06:18 +0600
Dustin Miller <dustbiz at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Mon, 24 Feb 2025 09:50:47 -0000
> Paul <paul at claws-mail.org> wrote:
> 
> > On Mon, 24 Feb 2025 15:42:04 +0600
> > Dustin Miller <dustbiz at gmail.com> wrote: 
> >   
> > > DM: So Jeremy, I guess it depends on how badly you want to 'fix'
> > > this for your use case, but you could experiment with different
> > > GTK themes to see if they make a difference. Another option would
> > > be to try to figure out what might be different between your
> > > system and Paul's that could be causing this difference in
> > > behavior. Regards, ---Dustin    

FWIW, I'm running Ubuntu 24.04.2 LTS (noble) with GNOME 46.0 and Wayland
and Yaru-blue-dark GTK theme. I'm really not up to speed with the latest
GNOME happenings, but I've heard rumors that Wayland changes the way
some things work. Maybe this is related.

I have claws mail version 4.2.0-2build7 installed from the Ubuntu
universe default repositories.

https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/claws-mail/4.2.0-2build7

This version of claws is GTK version 3, right?


> > Perhaps your problem is because you have a timed delay on marking as
> > read (on the same page of the prefs).
> >   
> DM: Not sure about Jeremy's use case, but here's some more info from
> my setup. I do use a timed delay (1 sec, I think), but have confirmed
> that this is not the issue. The following is how I was able to
> reproduce it on my system:

I have tried with both 1 second delay and 0 second delay, and I see the
same behavior.


> Step 2: Testing with message opened in new window (what Jeremy the OP
> is referring to) (which does not work as expected):
> * Beginning state: Message view is closed and message #1 is selected
>   and marked as unread.
> * I press 'Ctrl + Alt + N' on the keyboard, a new window opens to
>   display the message, and after the delay it is marked as read.
> * I press 'N' on the keyboard, message #2 is selected and displayed in
>   the new window, but after the delay it is still marked as unread. If
>   I press 'Esc' to close the new window, the message is still marked
> as unread.

Yes, I am trying to leave the message view closed, open the message in a
new window, and use the 'N' and 'P' keys to switch between messages.


-Jeremy