[Users] marking messages in new window as read

[Dustin Miller]

On Wed, 26 Feb 2025 21:52:02 -0800
Jeremy Schneider <schneider at ardentperf.com> wrote:

> On Mon, 24 Feb 2025 18:06:18 +0600
> Dustin Miller <dustbiz at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> > > > DM: ... 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. ...
> 
> ... I'm running Ubuntu 24.04.2 LTS (noble) with GNOME 46.0 and
> Wayland and Yaru-blue-dark GTK theme. ... I've heard rumors that
> Wayland changes the way some things work. Maybe this is related.
> 
DM: Hi, Jeremy. Yeah, I think I saw something recently on this list or
a bug report or something where someone had a different sort of issue
related to using Wayland. If you're able to, it would probably be good
to try to test this issue with an alternative (X11?) to see if that
makes a difference -- that would likely be helpful for both you and the
Claws Mail developers to know.
> 
> I have claws mail version 4.2.0-2build7 ...
> 
> This version of claws is GTK version 3, right? ...
> 
DM: Yes, anything that is version 4.x is GTK-3. Versions 3.x were
GTK-2, but those are no longer being supported, if I remember right.
Also, you may have already seen it, but Paul (developer) made a comment
on this thread to the effect that it's unlikely that this would be a
GTK3 theme issue.
> 
> > DM: Not sure about Jeremy's use case, but here's some more info from
> > my setup. ... The following is how I was able to reproduce it on my
> > system:  
> 
> > 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.
> 
DM: Thanks for clarifying this -- the more [possibly relevant] details,
the better, when reporting an issue. 🙂️ Again, you may have already
seen this on this thread, but I'll also mention here that Paul
(developer) commented that the message view being closed seems to be
"key" to the issue. I haven't yet received confirmation from him on it,
but this may mean that he has been able to reproduce the issue, not
sure.

DM: Also, not sure if this would be of any help, but you could try
running Claws from the terminal with the '--debug' option, go through
the process of reproducing the issue, and then look at the terminal
output to see if there is any related information that might be useful.
HTH, ---Dustin