Re: adding dead space to floating panels
- From: Dave Bordoley <bordoley msu edu>
- To: Calum Benson <calum benson sun com>
- Cc: desktop-devel-list gnome org, gnome-list gnome org
- Subject: Re: adding dead space to floating panels
- Date: 21 Jan 2003 08:38:33 -0500
On Tue, 2003-01-21 at 06:21, Calum Benson wrote:
> > Perhaps a better approach would be to popup a dial-up dialog whenever a
> > user tries to access remote content and no internet connection is
> > detected (oh and assuming the computer has a modem installed). i believe
> > windows works this way.
>
> Well, it does if you want it to... personally I find it highly annoying
> and have the auto-dial feature turned off. Otherwise all manner of
> processes keep going off and trying to dial up on their own, and since
> we don't have unmetered access over here I never trust it :)
>
I'm not advocating auto-dialing, just poping up a nice dialog:
"You are not currently connected to the internet"
"Do you want to connect?"
[work offline] [cancel][connect]
you get the point :)
dave
ps. Isn't this getting a little off-topic now.....probably my fault...
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