[MlMt] Can the sidebar progress spinners be disabled or hidden?

[Benny Kjær Nielsen]

On 1 Aug 2019, at 15:00, Andrew Canion wrote:

> One thing I do find distracting, though, are the sidebar spinners that 
> animate as IMAP folders are refreshed.
>
> Is there a way to hide this activity indicator, short of hiding the 
> entire sidebar (which I don’t want to do).

No, there's no such setting. The problem is that it's the only real 
indication that MailMate is actively talking to a server. If it's not 
there then the user would never notice if there was some kind of issue, 
e.g., a problem triggering some kind of busy loop with a server.

Earlier on (in the previous implementation of the mailbox list), 
MailMate did delay the display of the spinner and that would (at least 
on fast connections) mean that spinners were not shown quite as often. 
When/if I re-introduce this then I could perhaps make this delay 
configurable in a way that would allow you to hide them most of the 
time... I'll at least make a note of it.

-- 
Benny