Re: [Evolution] Feature request : network activity status display

[Shreyas <shreyas shres in>]

On Wed, 2006-08-30 at 08:15 +0200, Charles Bueche wrote:
> Hi,
> I miss a network traffic status display in the foot window. It shall
> display what happens in the background (syncing folderX, getting body of
> msgY, emptying trash, etc). 

Its not really evo's task to monitor the kind of network response it 
is experiencing. This seems more like a system level network manager 
task which tells apps that the network is slow and be careful about the 
network operations you carry out. There is network manager support right
now which just tracks network outage and not network inertia. 

Although i assume it would be hard to determine which events need to
take place when the network is slow and which shouldn't.

> Sometimes, evo appears to hang, but it is just doing some background
> network activity. Having a status display would help to understand what
> happens. The blinking network LED is not enough.

Now, thats a bug a well known one at that too. The sync operation should
not block the ui, but we all know that it happens sometimes. The status
bar should be set when any network operation is happening, you see
nothing on the status bar?

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Shreyas