Re: [Evolution] suggestion for evolution

[Ng Oon-Ee <ngoonee gmail com>]

On Wed, 2009-09-02 at 19:09 -0400, Jay Daniels wrote:
> On Tue, 2009-09-01 at 17:59 -0700, Jeff Barnes wrote:
> > Since Linux may become more popular in the future to where nongeeks use
> >  it I would like to suggest a slight improvement to Evolution email.
> >
> >  When the send/receive button gets greyed out it seems like there might
> >  be a bug in the software when in reality it got switched to "work
> >  offline" which is buried in the menu.
> >
> >  It would be a lot better if instead of greying out the "send/receive"
> >  button if it switched to saying "work online"
> >
> >  I spent time wondering if I had been hacked because of this!
>
> Work offline should be transparent to the user.
>
>
> jay

Besides, there's already an indicator of 'work offline' (a disconnected
plug at the bottom-left). Its obvious what it means once you think to
look.