Re: [Evolution] Muting Error Messages in main window

[Pete Biggs <pete biggs org uk>]

On Tue, 2016-10-25 at 12:42 +0400, Emre Erenoglu wrote:
> On Tuesday, October 25, 2016, Patrick O'Callaghan <poc usb ve> wrote:
> > 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.
>
> Interesting view :) But then, why do we even show those "flashing"
> messages, let's put only the error ones :)

Define an error?

It is "comforting" seeing things flash by, it means things are working.
("I haven't got any emails for a while. Are things broken. Ah, no, it's
all OK. People just don't want to talk to me.")

It's useful to see when things are being slow - there's no error as
such, it's just taking a long time - at least you can see that either
the network is slow, or some moron has just sent a 30Mb file by email,
or there is something that needs to be looked at.

There's a lot to be said for positive reinforcement that things are OK.

P.