Re: Demo Ui

[David Adam <zanchey ucc gu uwa edu au>]

Hi Philip,

On Mon, 20 Nov 2006, Philip Van Hoof wrote:
> It's a network manager glib API call that determines this, not tinymail.
> So it can't be a bug in Tinymail (nor does tinymail print all this, the
> printing is done by the library itself).
>
> Tinymail will default to offline status in case the API said that the
> network manager installation is invalid. On the demo ui there's a button
> which makes it possible to force the online status manually.

Could you explain the rationale behind this? There's plenty of systems
which don't or won't have NetworkManager installed, though I realise this
is only a demonstration UI.

David Adam
zanchey ucc gu uwa edu au