Re: [Evolution] suggestion for evolution

[Jay Daniels <tux myt60 net>]

On Thu, 2009-09-03 at 14:13 +1000, Nick Jenkins wrote:
> > > >  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.
> >
> > 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.
>
> I'm kind of with the original poster. Surely "Send/receive" is
> meaningless if you're offline? And over the past 12 months there have
> been at least 3 mails to this list from people asking for help who had
> not realised that they were offline. So from the "in the wild"
> real-world results, we can conclude a) that it's not obvious to people,
> and b) that they don't look down at the indicator. But what they are
> doing is trying to click the "send/receive" button.
>
> So to me, it makes sense to try doing something different with this
> button in offline mode. Some possibilities for discussion:
> * good: if the button's tooltip changed in offline mode to say "You
> cannot send and receive because you are currently offline", that might
> help people somewhat.
> * better: toggle this button to mean "work online".
> * best: toggle this button to mean "work online and then send/receive".
> If the button is clicked and Evo can't go online for some reason, give
> the user a popup dialog notifying them of this.
>
> -- All the best,
> Nick.


see my previous post, i am always online except to send when
disconnected which I can click save draft.


jay