Re: [Evolution] Unifying error messages all over GNOME

[Not Zed <notzed ximian com>]

We've already had thoughts on this, but nothings ever been done on it.

I saw an idea in YAM (an Amiga mailer) that looked useful, like an
automatic error logger thing that you can supress until you're ready to
look at it.

Personally i'd like to see a little red (!) button show up in the status
bar you can click on to get evolution-wide errors that were logged in a
scrollable list, unless the error was from direct user input.


On Fri, 2004-04-02 at 13:28 +0300, Enver ALTIN wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Dial-up users on unstable lines with evolution are already aware of the
> situation. Lets say, you have 7 accounts (4 pop3, 3 imap). You get
> disconnected in the middle of a send/receive session. You know have
> about 8 dialogs talking about some problem with the connection and each
> have a "Close" button in the bottom-right corner.
>
> Now, what would Joe user do? Where are these errors coming from? So I
> filed this:
>
>       http://bugzilla.ximian.com/show_bug.cgi?id=33980
>
> Micros~1 solved this issue for Outlook by adding an errors pane under
> the send-receive dialog. Any errors get displayed there, and Joe user
> can easily see what caused these errors.
>
> What I'd love to see in GNOME is, something to centralize and unify the
> way error messages are displayed, like notification area icons with
> balloons, containing short descriptions about the source and reason of
> the message.
>
> Sorry for cross-posting, I think this situation needs attention from
> both sides of the world.
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