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

[Janne <jan moren lucs lu se>]

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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