thunderbird / thunderbird/thunderbird-android
Possibility to cancel long running syncs
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- Kotlin
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Description
I have a light weighted (cheap) smartphone and additionally using adoptable.storage, K9 installed on sdcard.
My IMAP accounts are pretty large, so I'm also affected by some long opened K9 issues.
Fine to wait for solutions, but one thing would be great if possible earlier:
It happens several times a day to me, that I'm scrolling to the top of an IMAP account's mail list view, and by doing this I'm triggering unwanted, in my case very long running syncs. Up to 2 minutes, even if no new mails. Currently no chance to cancel, at least I'm not aware of.
Would be cool to have a 'cancel' option, or the option to disable the gesture for a manual triggered sync, already available icon/button does the same job perfectly.
Contributor guide
First steps
- Read the whole issue, then the project's contributing guide.
- Comment on the issue to say you are picking it up — it saves two people doing the same work.
- Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
- Open a pull request that references the issue number.
Research direction
Start from the mail list view's scroll-to-top gesture and compare it with the existing manual sync icon/button. Trace how a long-running sync is started and whether its cancellation path is exposed. Done means users can cancel the triggered sync or disable that gesture without losing manual sync, with the behavior covered by relevant tests.
Written by the indexing model from the issue text.
Assessment
- Tech stack
- android, kotlin
- Domain
- mobile-dev
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 4/5
- Estimated time
- 3-5 days
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 42/100