Re: [Evolution] RFE: Report which account has POP error

[Jeffrey Stedfast <fejj ximian com>]

On Thu, 2002-07-04 at 02:44, Kenneth Porter wrote:
> On Wed, 2002-07-03 at 22:49, Jeffrey Stedfast wrote:
>
> > > Agreed, but it would make the reporter's job much easier if the error
> > > dialog had selectable text that could be clipped to a file! :-)
> >
> > this is something to take up with the gtk developers, not us.
>
> Don't you have control over what dialog is used to report the error?
> When I had this problem on another platform, I just coded my own
> messagebox to do things the way *I* wanted. The default error box is
> just a convenience for the simple cases.

Yes, because we should *obviously* be spending our time writing
thousands of lines of code for useless widgets when a simple GtkLabel
widget would suffice.

> Of course, it would be nice if the default error box used read-only edit
> controls instead of unselectable labels.

That would just look ugly. Really, try doing a mockup of this idea in
glade and you'll see.

Jeff

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Jeffrey Stedfast
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