update_device_chats() takes about 2 seconds on a modern device (Android) because the
welcome image file has to be written to the disk as a blob. The problem
was that this was done after the progress bar had vanished and before
anything else happened so that I thought that something had gone wrong
multiple times.
The UIs have to remove update_device_chats(), too..
both are not used in productive:
- chat-id "in-creation" was dropped completely already in core-c
as it does not allow assigning messages to chats in time.
- message flag "starred" was added at some point and never used.
ux-wise, "disappearing messages" promises to clean up a chat -
this does not fit well with "starring" messages.
"saved messages" chat seems to be superior in that regard.
but anyway, it is not used but comes at maintainance costs,
so it is better to delete its functionality for now.
(the db entries, however, are left for now,
that might be more tricky to remove)
'Delete emails from server' was an experimental ad-hoc function
that was added before 'Automatically delete old messages' was introduced
to allow at least some way to cleanup.
'Delete emails from server'-UI was already removed from android/ios in june
(see https://github.com/deltachat/deltachat-android/pull/1406)
and the function never exists on desktop at all.
Now configure module is no longer public. Users should call
Context.configure() and Context.is_configured() methods.
Configure module is completely hidden from documentation unless
--document-private-items option is specified.
Since stock string callback has been deprecated, all event callbacks
return 0.
For compatibility, C declarations are not changed and FFI users are
expected to return 0 from their callbacks.
in the very beginning, we allowed using the cmdline partly from the ui
via a special function; this made info!() handy.
however, this is long gone and no longer needed.
