Tinymail now shows both the folders and the headers for each folder you select. Gaaah, I know you guys don’t believe me if I don’t post a stupid cute screenshot. So here you go:
I immediately picked my largest folder: my spam account INBOX folder. This is already using the custom treemodel, so it loaded extremely fast. But that is normal, as I’m only requesting the visible camel-message-info instances. I haven’t yet fully tweaked it. This is just the very first prove of concept. I will prove that you can, using camel and some very simple design patterns, write an e-mail client that has only the visible items in memory. And that a device like the Nokia 770 can, that way, easily show an extremely large e-mail folder. Once I’m really sure only the visible ones are requested, I’m planning to experiment with compressing the items in the base-directory which camel uses to on-disk-cache headers. Once you have full control over which items are requested, such tricks become useful. As it will need to decompress recently-new-visible header information, scrolling the treeview will of course become a little bit slower (I can also do it in a thread, using something like asyncworker).
If I can reduce the amount of disk-space, a 256 mb flash disk might hold all my spam E-mails headers of the last three years. Or perhaps there’s a better database-engine solution for this? Perhaps I should check out the status of that disksummary branch. I sure have plenty ideas to make camel a good candidate for mobile devices.
Just wondering if you meant to be including the includes to “/home/pvanhoof/personal.h” in the source, and other your path specific things in the svn tree.
Ah well, that file has some defines with my username and password, as I haven’t yet created something to do account-management. So I can’t put that in SVN, no :-)
Feel free to work on something like that?!