Speed...

[mwra]

[BTW, I emailed in log files - the reply ticket tags it to QEX-934470]

I'm using the latest 18-08 build and performance on my 3GHz Core Duo, 4GB RAM Win XP SP3. I've noticed that performance of the app is very slow compared to MWP. I rate the app and am happy to pay for ongiong improvements but if this is fast as it gets I'll be forced to cosider moving back to the old MWP. The new version no longer auotmatically shows the preview for the latest email and the act of clicking an item and waiting for the preview is a good few seconds. Same for each mail. Washing used to be instantaneous, not it's a watch & wait.Good as it is to have spam filtered, MWP (old) was a good form of inital triage as I often delete 'good' stuff at this point - e.g. a periodic newletter I wish to recieve but wo't read this time aorund (incidentally, does that behaviour affect the new MWP rating system). Anyway, not here to troll but am interested as to whether the app is as fast as it can get - is the current spped the price of using VB.NET vs a C++ type code? I'm also concerned the MWP will get a bigger footprint - as it''s on all the time my PC is running this is robbing resource for other work - utilities like this ned the smallest possible footprint or they don't get run all the time, which in turn negates their purpose. From my task manager (mem usage / peak mem usage / VM size:

MWP 2010: 77,584 / 230,252 / 108,660 + MWP App: 19,120 / 20,092 /
MWP 6: 1,624/ 22,242 15,636

Wow, that looks like a much bigger footprint!

Some other observations from a week or so of use:

• I use XP Silver UI settings but MWP doesn't hour this and I get a blue app titlebar/frame that jars amidst all my other theme compliant apps.
• Toolbar buttons are way to big by default. Not obvious how to set a sensible size. The controls logically ought be on the 'settings tab not hidden away elsewhere. Setting icon size isn't in the Help, or not that I can find - I had to resort to searching the forum for a fix.

Not put off so far, and nice to see progress but the footprint/speed of the app does give casue for concern. Thanks for listening and good luck with the development!

[rusticdog]

the act of clicking an item and waiting for the preview is a good few seconds. Same for each mail.

The speed when clicking between emails I think will be resolved next release, which may be tomorrow.

Washing used to be instantaneous, not it's a watch & wait.Good as it is to have spam filtered, MWP (old) was a good form of inital triage as I often delete 'good' stuff at this point - e.g. a periodic newletter I wish to recieve but wo't read this time aorund (incidentally, does that behaviour affect the new MWP rating system).

See again how the next version goes, there are always improvements each version...

From my task manager (mem usage / peak mem usage / VM size:

MWP 2010: 77,584 / 230,252 / 108,660 + MWP App: 19,120 / 20,092 /
MWP 6: 1,624/ 22,242 15,636

Wow, that looks like a much bigger footprint!

That's mostly the User Interface. Graphically it will take a lot more, but Windows manages the memory use very well and will garbage collect as required. Also .NET shares memory, so whilst you might see the UI using 100MB, 70MB of this could be able to be shared so any other .NET application may make use of it. Task Manager doesn't show when programs are sharing memory.

Some other observations from a week or so of use:

• I use XP Silver UI settings but MWP doesn't hour this and I get a blue app titlebar/frame that jars amidst all my other theme compliant apps.

No, we override any display theme with our own. Otherwise we would need to rework all the borders, remove the tabs etc..

[*]Toolbar buttons are way to big by default. Not obvious how to set a sensible size. The controls logically ought be on the 'settings tab not hidden away elsewhere. Setting icon size isn't in the Help, or not that I can find - I had to resort to searching the forum for a fix.[/list]Not put off so far, and nice to see progress but the footprint/speed of the app does give casue for concern. Thanks for listening and good luck with the development!

Quick Display >> Zoom >> you've got two sliders, one for Font, one for Icon size.



As for the rest, we're making improvements all the time. New versions tend to come out every two weeks and we'll be trying our best to pay more attention to speed etc... over the coming weeks.


Cheers

[mwra]

Cheers, all sounds good! I realise it's early days for MWP 2010.

Is there a control within MWP that I can use to set a different frame colour and blue?

[rusticdog]

Cheers, all sounds good! I realise it's early days for MWP 2010.

Is there a control within MWP that I can use to set a different frame colour and blue?

Not on XP, but next week I'll check out XP Silver properly. Maybe there is a compromise that can be had if it's too contrasting (and a UI designer to be bribed)

[mwra]

Thanks. FWIW below is the sort of thing I see. Even as an out of focus app the colour glares out. I like a low-noise screen - no cheesy photos, plain grey background, though I accept that's maybe not the norm. Anyway, happy you're at least listening to my bleats!

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