Re: [Evolution-hackers] Offline stuff

[Hans Petter Jansson <hpj ximian com>]

On Sun, 2003-11-30 at 15:10, Ettore Perazzoli wrote:

> Also, we had talked about revamping the mailer's way of doing
> offline...  Now I don't know how far are we with that, but I think it
> should just do this:
> 
>       * Sync folders in the background while Evolution is online.
> 
>       * When going offline, if there are unsynced messages, the mailer
>         should notify the user ("you have unsynced messages, go offline
>         anyways?") and stop the download if the user confirms.  This way
>         the user doesn't have to plan in advance to sync the messages
>         before putting the computer offline.

It would be sweet if that dialog could somehow display sync progress and
go offline if the sync was done before there was any interaction. That
way, the user won't have to retry offline periodically until it's done
syncing.

--
Hans Petter