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

[Charles Bueche <charles bueche ch>]

Hi,

thanks for your awakening answer. Your last sentence made me thought
"they must be a status bar somewhere", so I looked into the "View" menu,
found "View Status Bar" and found exactly what I was looking for.

Mmmh, I should have sleep longer this morning...

Thanks,
Charles

On mer, 2006-08-30 at 15:54 +0530, Shreyas wrote:
> 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?
>
> --
> Shreyas
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Charles Bueche <charles bueche ch>
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