[Gmailagent-devel] Re: [Libgmail-developer] Libgmail: Fixes and a question

[Richard J. <jo...@gm...>]

On 9/26/05, Stas Z <sta...@gm...> wrote:
> On 9/26/05, Richard Jones <jo...@gm...> wrote:
>
> > Thanks for that, gmailfs users everywhere will thanks you (all 2 or 3
> > of them :-)  ).
> Are you sure, a quick look into the Debian popularity contest shows
> that they recorded
> 158 persons which installed it :-)
> And that only for Debian users who participate in the popularity contest.
>

Interesting, I guess I judge by the number of complaints I get when
Google changes something.  Maybe seb is heading off most of those
complaints :-)

> > > I also added a new method called 'getUnreadMsg' which returns the inb=
ox messages
> > > marked 'unread'.
> > >
> > I don't have a strong opinion on this, I dont use this call in
> > gmailfs, however from an API point of view it  might be better to add
> > a getUnreadMessagesByFolder and have some kind of strategy of dealing
> > with the lockdown issue.
> That is probably better indeed, thanks.
>
> > Can you only get the first page and then
> > load the others on demand when the user tries to iterate over them?
> Perhaps, but it should also be possible when libgmail is run in some sort=
 of
> automated process or from a script.
>

By user I meant API user.  This idea only really helps if they are
doing work with the messages whilst iterating overthem otherwise they
are still likely to get locked out.  I guess the only real option here
is to introduce artificial pauses if you detect the API user iterating
too quickly (assuming that what is "too quickly" can be easily
pre-determined).

Regards,
Richard.