Re: [Evolution] Muting Error Messages in main window

[Patrick O'Callaghan <poc usb ve>]

On Tue, 2016-10-25 at 12:06 +0400, Emre Erenoglu wrote:
> On Tuesday, October 25, 2016, Patrick O'Callaghan <poc usb ve> wrote:
>
> > > Left Side: A single line with real status messages, Fetching Message
> > > 561/12544 for example. or like out look "all folders up to date", "folder
> > > being updated". etc. Clicking it could bring a window with all log
> > messages.
> >
> > That would make sense if it was only doing one thing at a time, but of
> > course it's often doing several things at once and it can be useful to
> > know what they are, especially if something goes wrong
>
> Yes, but we have to assume that things go right most of the time, and when
> things go wrong occasionally, we can always click the area to get more
> details. (ie a separate log window, an expanding window, etc.)
>
> In any case, while doing several things at once, we never have the chance
> to read what's going on since they remain a fraction of a second in the
> status area, or shunk down to a size which is unreadable if there are many
> messages coming up.

On the contrary, often when I suspect something is wrong it's because
some activity (fetching a message, refreshing a folder, ..) seems to be
taking too long. If they were flashing by I wouldn't be worried about
them.

poc