Re: Evolution Exchange Connector: UI freeze clarification

[Murray Cumming <murrayc murrayc com>]

On Thu, 2005-07-28 at 12:07 -0600, Ahmed Sarfraaz wrote:
> Thanks for the approvals. 
> 
> Just to get some clarity on UI freeze, does popping up an error message,  [ which may or may not be already popping up in the application in some other scenarios ], lead to a UI freeze break ?

Yes. Thanks for asking for approval.

>  I was under the impression that UI freeze is to help developers streamline the UIs with some minor tweaks, and also help the documentation team to get a clear picture of the application behaviour. Please dont misunderstand me, I am asking this, only to get a better understanding of this so that we can take care of these things well in the future releases.
> 
> Thanks
> -- Sarfraaz
> 
> >>> Murray Cumming <murrayc murrayc com> 07/28/05 7:54 PM >>>
> On Thu, 2005-07-28 at 07:46 -0600, Elijah Newren wrote:
> > On 7/28/05, Praveen Kumar <kpraveen novell com> wrote:
> > > Hello -
> > > 
> > > I am attaching a patch that fixes the bug 311712 in the Exchange
> > > Connector component of Evolution. The current version at HEAD doesn't
> > > report error on failure of folder subscription. The attached patch fixes
> > > it by popping up the error dialog. These error dialogs are not new to
> > > the application as they (dialogs with same error messages) are used at
> > > various other places. But they are new to the part of code that was
> > > fixed. I am wondering if this would affect the UI freeze. Can you please
> > > let me know your suggestion on committing this fix to the HEAD?
> > 
> > Yeah, looks like it affects UI freeze, but silently failing instead of
> > informing the user of the error sucks really badly.  Approval 1 of 2
> > for fixing on HEAD.
> 
> Yes, this is an addition rather than a change, so it's unlikely to
> affect documentation. 2 of 2.
> 
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