Re: [Evolution] UI issue with failing connections and their dialogs

[Ben FrantzDale <bfrantzdale hmc edu>]

One other thought while we're on the subject: The dialog doesn't have a
timestamp on it. If my 'net connection were to go down for 10 minutes
douring the night and I were to have a dialog in the morning I'd want to
know when the problem occured. (Perhaps if the error occured for a while
there could be a [details >>] button that gave the timestamps of all of
the errors.)

--Ben

On 09 Aug 2001 00:25:32 +0200, Janne wrote:
> Oh, there was a bugreport already *hides face in shame* I've added my
> comments to that one.
> 
> Ben has a bit of a point below regarding my other suggestion: error
> dialogs do not usually magically disappear unless clicked on. This might
> mean that that solution is not feasible after all.
> 
> A third solution could be that upon a new error, the thread checks to
> see if the dialog is still present, and avoids popping up another one.
>  
> 
> 
> On 08 Aug 2001 15:10:49 -0700, Ben FrantzDale wrote:
> > On 08 Aug 2001 23:50:02 +0200, Janne wrote:
> > > 
> > > I just came home after being away for a day or so, and I've had
> > > Evolution running while away. For some reason, my network connection has
> > > been down most of the time I was away, and when Evo dutifully checked
> > > mail every ten minutes, it couldn't, and popped up a warning dialog -
> > > one dialog per server, every ten minutes for an entire night and day...
> > > Needless to say, that's a _lot_ of dialogs to click away.
> > 
> > I totally agree. it's very, VERY anoying. I think this bug covers it:
> > http://bugzilla.ximian.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1823
> > Though I remember there being some coppies of this bug around.
> > 
> > > My suggestion (and I'd like a bit of feedback on this) would be to
> > > dispense with those dialogs entirely, and instead write a warning on the
> > > bottom toolbar thingy in the main window. This warning would remain
> > > until something else displayed a line on it (checking new mail,
> > > whatever), so that the user always can see whether the latest fetch
> > > worked.
> > 
> > I think there should be one error so that if the user is doing something
> > else (s)he is made aware of the problem. There should only be one
> > dialog, though.
> > 
> > > An alternative (but perhaps inferior) alternative would be to remove the
> > > dialogs after some time (1 minute, perhaps) even if they aren't clicked
> > > on.
> > 
> > That's unusual behavior for dialogs but It'd be kinda nice. Then you
> > wouldn't see any error dialogs if there were a breif network outage
> > while you weren't around your computer.
> > 
> > BTW, what does Outlook do?
> > 
> > --Ben
> > 
> > 
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