Re: [Evolution] suggestion for evolution

[Pete Biggs <pete biggs org uk>]

> I am normally not a Mac user. However my wife has a MacBook that I was
> using recently with a wireless network. The network went away for 5
> minutes. All the apps went into "Offline mode". Then the wireless
> network came book (I don't why) and viola the apps went "Online mode"
> again.
>
> During this time I spent several minutes figuring out the network had
> gone away and why Firefox had suddenly gone into "Offline Mode" on its
> own.
>
> This is probably want is meant by transparently, however it would
> require event notification from the OS that the NIC to the internet has
> gone down.

Err, yes, that's what Evolution does - that's what the NetworkManager
and dbus etc takes care of under Gnome.  Try it and see, unplug your
ethernet cable and Evo will go into off-line mode - plug it back in and
Evo comes back on-line.

The problem that people usually have is that NetworkManager is not
configured properly.  And if you explicitly put Evo into off-line mode
(often by accidentally clicking on the icon at the bottom left), then it
stays in that state until you explicitly put it back on-line - i.e. the
state of NetworkManager doesn't then affect Evo.

P.