[20586] in Athena Bugs
Re: Starting evolution from task bar icon forgets geometry and
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Greg Hudson)
Tue Aug 13 15:28:02 2002
From: Greg Hudson <ghudson@MIT.EDU>
To: Bill Cattey <wdc@mit.edu>
Cc: bugs@mit.edu
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The panel launcher runs:
evolution --no-splash "evolution:/MIT mail/INBOX"
This can cause the summary page to load because evolution-shell gets
around to asking evolution-mail about "/MIT mail/INBOX" sooner than it
would otherwise (no splash screen, no having to read the default view
from a file). That triggers a race condition. At least, that's my
impression. I have had no luck fixing the problem.
Of course, even if the race condition doesn't happen, evolution would
still start with a different view than the one you had left it at. (I
don't know why the geometry would be wrong, though.)
If people think it's better, I can make the panel launcher run just
"evolution --no-splash". This means that new users would always get the
summary page (possibly that could be hacked around), but existing users
would be more likely to get the view they left things at. I'm not sure
how much the --no-splash option alone makes the race condition more
likely.